Massad Ayoob





Massad Ayoob

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July 20, 1948 in The United States

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Massad Ayoob is an internationally known firearms and self-defense instructor. He has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense to both law enforcement officers and private citizens in numerous venues since 1974. Ayoob has appeared as an expert witness in several trials. He has served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and holds the rank of Captain in the Grantham, New Hampshire police department.

Ayoob has authored several books and more than 1,000 articles on firearms, combat techniques, self-defense, and legal issues, and has served in an editorial capacity for Guns Magazine, American Handgunner, Gun Week, and Combat Handguns. Since 1995, he has written self-defense- and firearms-related articles for Backwo...more


Average rating: 4.08 · 196 ratings · 38 reviews · 22 distinct works
In the Gravest Extreme Role...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1980
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The Gun Digest Book of Conc...
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Stressfire, Vol. 1
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The Truth About Self Protec...
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Ayoob Files: The Book
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1995
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The Truth About Self Protec...
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Stressfire II: Advanced Com...
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Gun Proof Your Children / M...
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Massad Ayoob's Greatest Han...
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“Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.”
Massad Ayoob, In the Gravest Extreme Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection

“A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.”
Massad Ayoob, In the Gravest Extreme Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection



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