Massad Ayoob on Guns
SMALL TOWN POLICE
I recently watched this documentary on small-town policing. They got a lot of things right.
https://youtu.be/p6J8n_WeThw?si=5_ipiA3op6kVAtrq
Having been a small town cop, I can tell you that while the action is not as constant and exciting...
A BLAST FROM THE PAST (MY PAST, ANYWAY)
The Firearms Blog is one of the most interesting and instructive firearms sites on the Internet. Here’s one that brought me back…way back.
A Springfield 87-A was the first firearm I ever shot. My dad...
EMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
In this space in the past, you’ve seen reviews of other books by T.C. Fuller, a retired FBI agent I shot matches with back in the day. His latest is “Empathy For the Devil,”...
AN ANTI-GUNNER SPEAKS
Are you a law-abiding gun owner who may have low blood pressure? I have a cure you can find in a bookstore: “What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms” by...
HANDGUNS FOR BEAR DEFENSE
On my recent Alaska trip I talked to local lawmen, firearms instructors, and gun dealers about handguns for defense against bear attacks.
In years past, the .44 Magnum revolver was the hands-down choice. In recent...
PROOF THAT GUN CONTROL DOESN’T REDUCE HOMICIDES
From no less an authority than Duke University School of Medicine comes the important study, that shows that gun laws have little influence on homicide rates
GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Association, has announced some of the speakers for this year’s Gun Rights Policy Conference as follows:
Immerse yourself in the heart of the Second Amendment movement at the 2024...
A SAD STORY OF A MAN WHO FROZE
The controversial novelist Salman Rushdie was born in India in 1947 and became a British citizen in 1964, and grew up without a touch of the gun culture. When his 1988 novel “The Satanic...
A KIND WORD FOR KIMBERLY CHEATLE
Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle resigned recently after being roasted by a committee in DC over the Trump assassination attempt. I’ll give her one thing: when an obsessively anti-gun congressman tried to get her...
BIDEN’S ATTACK ON THE SUPREME COURT OF THE US
When even the Washington Post says President Biden is way off base, I am reassured that it’s not just me who thinks so.
