I feel lucky that during the course of my professional life span (about 26 years now) I've seen the evolution of several new handgun cartridges: the .40S&W, the .357Sig and the .45GAP to name a few.

The Glock 32’s appeal was always technical as much as it was practical. It packaged a bottleneck, high-velocity cartridge into Glock’s compact format, giving shooters a middle size between the ...