Massad Ayoob on Guns
ON THE SIG ROMEO RECALL
It has been determined that the battery cap on a SIG Romeo optical sight is not child proof, and a little kid could remove the battery and swallow it. I kid you not. Read...
A SKEPTIC-AL LOOK AT CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
The theme of the current issue of Skeptic magazine is “crime and punishment.” The conclusions of the researchers who put it together are of interest. Some of their points:
--“One famous study found that just...
WELL, WHADDAYA KNOW?
If someone had asked me six weeks ago, “When do you think we’ll be able to get non-resident concealed carry for California?” my answer might have been, “Oh, about the same time they get...
THE NEW STANDARD CATALOG OF SMITH & WESSON
From Gun Digest Books comes “The Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson,” fifth edition. Jim Supica and Richard Nahas, two pre-eminent authorities on these guns, are the authors.
Let me call your attention to a...
THE END OF EVERYTHING
Sometimes what is true in macrocosm is true in microcosm. Reading military historian Victor Davis Hanson’s 2024 book “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation” reminded me of this.
Hanson goes into scrupulous...
DEFENSE GUNS FOR GEEZERS
Being now of an age of certified geezer-tude, I think I’m qualified to speak about defensive handguns for the elderly. Hell, I’ve been teaching old folks to shoot since I was twenty-something, so…
Second Amendment...
ACCEPT A PLEA BARGAIN?
If we had, say, shot a violent criminal in self-defense and wound up charged with murder, we’d all stand up righteously and demand a trial, right?
It’s easy for us to say. We’re not looking...
GOLDEN YEARS
So, I heard of the book “Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Re-Invented Old Age” and bought it, ‘cause I figured I exemplified the target audience. Should have read it on a park bench...
GANGSTER HUNTERS
My parents lived through the Roaring Twenties and the early Thirties when “motor bandits” and assorted gangsters were always in the headlines. I became fascinated with the era hearing them discuss it in the...
RESOLUTIONS
New Year’s resolutions seem to be an American tradition.
I managed to get all the way through 2024 without ONCE dating a letter or check “2023.”
And was pretty proud of myself until the fourth day...
