Using muzzle velocity, caliber, bullet weight and energy, there have been multiple attempts to create formulas to rate handgun stopping power. The problem is that these theories are tied to ...

When it comes to handgun ... which caliber should be used by soldiers. Julian Hatcher, a former Technical Editor at American Rifleman, based his theory of Relative Stopping Power on this study ...

45-caliber handguns, a weapon that’s been around ... the gun has “greater stopping power” than the .40-caliber weapon they’ve been carrying. “It just keeps resurfacing because it ...