Wilson Combat’s new Bulwark 9mm pistol is featured on the cover of CONCEALMENT issue 52. The magazine presents the gun as an original design that at first glance resembles established Glock and Browning patterns yet differs substantially from both.

Advances in semiautomatic pistols have typically arrived through a handful of influential inventors, after which most firms copy or refine those platforms because new engineering takes more time and carries greater financial risk for investors. The article frames the Bulwark as one of the rare attempts at a genuinely different approach that larger manufacturers usually avoid.

RECOIL, which began publishing in 2012, produces CONCEALMENT as part of its firearms coverage.