Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 12

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 years, however, the most popular sidearm in bear country has become the 16-shot 10mm autoloader. Ten more torpedoes ready for […]

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 Gun Rights Policy Conference, where the nation’s foremost advocates will converge to share insights and strategies that will shape the future of […]

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 Verses” came out, the Muslim world condemned him for it. The Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa on him for blasphemy and […]

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 to blame AR15s, she didn’t fall for it. See it here, courtesy of Mark Chesnut and TTAG, with narrative by Phil […]

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.

AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF AN AMERICAN RIFLEMAN

Why does the Second Amendment Foundation fight for the right of 18- to 20-year-old Americans to buy firearms such as the AR15? Among other reasons, because if they’re old enough to die fighting for their country with a real government-issue assault rifle or something much deadlier in their hands, they’re old enough to buy an […]

VIOLENT DEATH IN FALLUJAH

Self-defense is, by definition, lawful countervailing violence. Unpleasant as it is we have to confront it if we’re going to be prepared to protect ourselves and those within our mantle of protection. You can learn a lot about this from warfighters who have been in combat, up close and personal. I recently re-read “House to […]

DISPATCH FROM THE FAR NORTH

At home the daily highs were averaging about 98 degrees Fahrenheit and occasionally hitting three digits before the tremendous humidity added to the heat factor. I was glad I was scheduled to go north of North Pole. Not north of the North Pole, mind you, but to Fairbanks which is slightly north of the town […]

GUNPOINT

One of the prevailing myths out there about armed self-defense is that you mustn’t draw unless you’re going to shoot. In a word, BULLSHIT! How do people who propound that crap reconcile their advice with the fact that in every single study of DGUs (defensive gun usages) the overwhelming majority end with the bad guy […]