Your weekly digest of ammunition reviews, reloading gear, and ammo legislation from The Truth About Guns. Reviews & Field Tests Liberty Ammunition’s 9mm Overwatch Load: 72-Grain...

Your weekly digest of ammunition reviews, reloading gear, and ammo legislation from The Truth About Guns. Reviews & Field Tests Liberty Ammunition’s 9mm Overwatch Load: 72-Grain Bullet, Max Velocity March 3, 2026  ·  By Mike Hardesty Liberty Ammunition’s Overwatch 9mm takes the light-and-fast philosophy to an extreme: a 72-grain machined copper bullet pushed to velocities that leave conventional defensive loads well behind. TTAG’s Mike Hardesty put it through its paces, testing accuracy, penetration, and real-world defensive performance. The review digs into the two competing schools of thought on defensive ammo design—heavy-and-slow vs. light-and-fast—and where the Overwatch fits in. Liberty, based in Bradenton, Florida, holds 15 patents and supplies a 5.56mm armor-piercing load to the military, so they know a...