I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...

The red dot on the pistol has become normal—but it still fails in the one way irons don’t. This tension lurked beneath the company’s most recent SHOT Show display: optics are faster and easier to ...