I am going to be honest in regards to the article titled “Compensators: Pressure or Gas?” by Brad Miller, Ph.D. I did not understand one bit of it. I ended up re-reading it three times just to get the basic point of the article. My first struggle is I did not know some of the terminology he was using, such as charge weight, linear regression or chamber pressure. Or the fact I have not used or heard of Newton’s Second Law or Newtonian physics since high school some 25 years ago. I know the article was mostly focused on the .45 ACP and .38 special, but I curious how the effects of compensators would work on long guns such at the AR-15, which has a compensator, say one with out. Would the be a drastic effect on the with the increase in the
