The Hero Human beings have always been fascinated by the hero's journey and what it ultimately means to be a hero. It started with the ancient stories told around fires. These stories of heroes battling fierce beasts, stopping daunting enemies, and overcoming adversity. Even now with modern stories of men and women fighting evil in| Dark Star Gear
Glock COA The new Aimpoint COA is a decent size for an enclosed emitter optic, and it carries the Aimpoint legacy with it. A motley crew sat down and had a chat about some new optics, including the new collaboration between Aimpoint and Glock. The new COA is most certainly a step in the direction| Dark Star Gear
Solving For 'X' There are a lot of problems that any good holster needs to resolve for the wearer. Any holster, regardless of carry position, must perform a crucial function. It needs to protect the trigger and prevent the firearm from discharging inadvertently. Holsters also need to securely hold the gun in its intended position| Dark Star Gear
Aufhebung: Creative Destruction How is it possible to both destroy and keep an idea? How can we both preserve and change an object? Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a Western philosopher, introduced the concept of sublation or Aufhebung. This term uniquely means "to cancel," "to keep," and "to pick up" all at once. While these ideas| Dark Star Gear
What is a redshift? More importantly, what does it have to do with Dark Star Gear? Redshift is a fundamental concept in astronomy. For those of us who aren't astronomers, the concept of redshift can be explained simply. Redshift is a method to understand changes in light. It applies to objects in space as they| Dark Star Gear
Dark Star - Origins Since I was small, I've been a tinkerer, fascinated by how things worked and fixing stuff if need be. I was born into a motorcycle-loving family and had my first dirt bike before I got a bicycle. The dirt bike had training wheels, of course. As my dad would work on| Dark Star Gear
A New Holster? Introducing the Perseus: A New Standard in Excellence After years of success with the Orion and Hitchhiker, we’re proud to unveil the Perseus—a model that redefines what you can expect from your gear. The Orion, released in 2016, set the benchmark for 8 years, influencing countless holster makers with its innovative design| Dark Star Gear
The last few years have been strange, and this year with the election, prices rising, and lots of uncertainty, this year is the same. The end of the year brings lots of joy, time together, and of course, gifting. With so many people being quite difficult to shop for because we buy what we want,| Dark Star Gear
Finally! We have threatened a 1911 holster for years, longer than any other product. We have always had a few in the wild, but our goal was to always make something for the 1911 aficionado. Not just something that works for one or two, but all of their 1911's. The biggest holdup has been| Dark Star Gear
A week or three ago we were at TacCon 2024 and took some time with our friends to learn, mingle, and so on. A staple presenter, and the guy behind the IAC, Cecil Burch was there as well, and we took some time to record a long overdue video. The TL;DR is that if| Dark Star Gear
SHOP NOW FEATURED PRODUCTS Our Curated Selection ABOUT US In 2009 as the training season unfolded, we sought a much narrower footprint holster than what was currently available. After exhaustive correspondence with numerous manufacturers, their unwillingness to attempt our new idea was obvious. Necessity| Dark Star Gear
With what we learned from the years of feedback from our Orion and Hitchhiker holsters, we’ve packaged the most desired features into one new offering. We noticed a pattern for the current generation of concealed carry pistols and their buyers. I don't want to say we've taken the guesswork out. But| Dark Star Gear
