Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 19

OFF TO A GOOD START ON THE LEGAL FRONT

Mid-December to end of January is when the Evil Princess and I usually take a sabbatical from teaching to get caught up on accounting, scheduling, and just take a bit of a breather. Unfortunately, we can’t control the court schedules, which on the expert witness side of what I do is something I always have […]

SOME GOOD READING

Old guy here reads more history than anything else, and likes to share the best. That, of late, would include “Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor” by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. The book centers on Douglas Wada, the Office of Naval […]

ABOUT DIRTY HARRY

The first Dirty Harry movie came out in 1971. My late first wife and I saw it in a theater during our honeymoon.  One of my first published articles was a review of it that appeared in New Hampshire’s statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union-Leader. Suffice to say (nothing against Clint Eastwood) the Dirty Harry character […]

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

Time to talk about handling guns in cold weather.  Old guy here fled the frozen wastelands some years ago for the balmy South, where I haven’t had to put gloves on yet this winter and hope to continue that. For those who are going to venture into the blustery outdoors with firearms, I offer this […]

TWO OF THE REASONS I WON’T BE AT THE SHOT SHOW THIS YEAR

From Firearms news. And this:

A STRONG ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF STANDARD CAPACITY MAGAZINES

My old friend David Kopel is one of the most lucid voices in the gun owners’ civil rights movement. Here is his latest on the magazine capacity limit issue, via Reason and the Volokh Conspiracy.

THE MAGNIFICENT FRIGATE BIRD…AND OTHERS

Our close friend Dr. Ken Kelly has turned my lovely bride into a birdwatcher and member of the Audubon Society. She celebrated the end of our 2023 teaching tour with a few days on beautiful Sanibel Island in Florida, where she photographed many of the thousands of birds she saw, one of which was the […]

HOLLYWOOD’S GUN CONTROL HYPOCRITES

For your viewing pleasure and enlightenment: And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.  Share others you know of, here.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The holiday season is supposed to be happy, so that right there keeps me from writing anything about politics for 2024, at least for now.  Heaven knows, we can expect to be dealing with enough of that in this space in the year to come. New Year’s Resolutions are A Thing.  Mine include slowing down […]

SPARE EIGHT MINUTES FOR A REALITY CHECK?

Many of the gun prohibitionists don’t realize how bloodthirsty they seem when they count only cases where the armed citizen kills a criminal in self-defense. The vast majority of DGU (defensive gun use) saves result in no bloodshed at all when an intended victim or good Samaritan causes the criminal to break off the attack […]