Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 22

VICTORIES ON OUR SIDE, AND A MIS-STEP BY THE OTHER SIDE

My old friend Mark Walters runs Armed American Radio, which is always a source of good information for you. He’s also a 2A warrior and a board member of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). Immediately after this year’s Gun Rights Policy Conference, Mark interviewed two of us who […]

FIREARMS HANDLING REFRESHERS

From our host Backwoods Home magazine, twenty years ago and still relevant. Handguns: https://www.backwoodshome.com/firearm... Shotguns: https://www.backwoodshome.com/firearm... Rifles: https://www.backwoodshome.com/firearm... Visit the magazine’s home page, www.backwoodshome.com, regularly. They have lots of good reading and include “blasts from the past” like these.  It’s where I found the material above.

ADVICE FOR DEBATING YOUR ISSUES

I’ve known Tom McHale for years as a gun expert, student, writer, analyst and (total disclosure) one of my editors. Here’s an excellent piece he wrote on debate strategy for Ammoland.com.  Take it to heart.

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO CATCH THE GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE

Hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens’ Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the 2023 Gun Rights Policy Conference is history…but it’s history you can access. Our speakers included the best and the brightest from our side of this polarized debate, from the attorneys who bring the lawsuits to restore […]

A SAD SEPTEMBER

I’ve mentioned before in this space that I hate it when my blog looks like an obituary page. September 2023 is a case in point. Last month, we lost Elaine Frank, the retired head of the Injury Prevention unit in Hanover, NH. Elaine was the founder of the New Hampshire Firearms Safety Coalition. In the […]

WHAT CONSTITUTES NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE?

Words mean things. In firearms safety terminology, we’ve seen some changes. It used to be that whenever a shot was fired unintentionally, it was called an AD, or Accidental Discharge. In recent decades, the distinction has been made between the AD and the ND, or Negligent Discharge. The standard became this: if the shot was […]

LEVERS

When I was a kid growing up in northern New England, lever actions were the most popular hunting rifles in the region. In fact, the only high powered rifle in my dad’s armory was a Winchester ’94. Time went on. Bolt actions and autoloaders came to the fore in popularity among hunters. Today, we’re seeing […]

GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE: YOU CAN ATTEND VIRTUALLY AND FOR FREE

The theme for this year’s Gun Rights Policy Conference is “The Road to Liberty.” September 22-24, in Phoenix. Info here. If you can’t be there with us (it’s free!) you are welcome to share the experience virtually. You’ll get the best possible update on where we are in the legislatures and the courts right now […]

SELF-DEFENSE ISSUES WITH AR15s

For many years I’ve warned students that because AR15 rifles – and, by association, those who use them for self-defense – have been so demonized by the anti-gun press and an anti-gun political party, they could expect to be demonized in court should they have to use one to shoot a criminal.   I have often […]

IF IT’S LEGAL, IT AIN’T CHEATING

The definition of “cheating” is “lying and stealing.” If a violent criminal threatens you with death, it isn’t cheating for you to respond with “threat in kind” (which I would consider to be “fulfilling your duty to warn”), or even for you to unleash deadly force if the totality of the circumstances warranted it. Over […]