Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 25

AND THE PROHIBITIONISTS TELL US THAT WE’LL NEVER NEED TO TAKE UP ARMS

We offer you this. And a year or so ago the same was happening in Ukraine.The Second Amendment is there in part because the Founders knew this sort of thing couldhappen…anywhere.

WELL, THAT ANSWERS THAT…

THE BIG PICTURE ON THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

Here’s a blast from the past, reminding me that during my lifetime the US Army collaborated with the National Rifle Association to produce a half-hour film explaining the values of responsible gun ownership in our country.  Or watch video here. It recalls a happier time…

HELICOPTER CRASH REDUX

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know that every January 26 I make reference to the helicopter crash my buddy John Strayer and I survived on that date in 2013. It got one of the heaviest reader responses in the history of the blog…and of course, was a watershed experience for […]

A RUINED BRUIN

I recently rented the movie “Cocaine Bear” from Redbox. It’s supposed to be loosely based on an actual incident back in the 1980s. Well…very loosely. A dope transporter dumps multiple kilos of coke from an airplane and then, being stoned on his own supply, knocks himself out when trying to parachute out and falls to […]

PAXTON QUIGLEY RETURNS

Paxton Quigley was an early voice for women to keep and carry firearms to protect themselves and their families.  Now comes her newest book, “Armed & Female II: Never An Easy Target.” I was honored to write the cover blurb. It says, “Paxton Quigley’s Armed & Female was a ground-breaking manifesto for women’s self-defense and […]

THE UNEXPECTED KNOCK AT THE DOOR

We’ve recently had a few tragic cases of mistaken identity shootings in or near doorways that have become national news – and fodder for the gun prohibitionists.  I may have run this video in this space before, but it seems timely to offer it again, in the nature of a public service announcement.  It was […]

A TRIPLE HARD LOSS TO THE WORLD OF THE “GUN PEOPLE”

This past week has brought us the sad news of the passing of three good men, all stalwart supporters of the right to self-defense and the responsible bearing of arms. In order of their departures: A week ago today J. Michael Plaxco departed. “Mike” to his friends and “John” in the business world (to keep […]

THE SNUBNOSE REVOLVER

Once the dominant choice of plainclothes and off-duty cops and armed citizens with concealed carry permits, the supposedly-obsolete short-barrel revolver remains the most likely “round gun” you’re likely to find in a gun shop display case of handguns that is crowded with polymer frame semiautomatic pistols these days.  Why has this particular revolver endured so […]

A VICTORY IN NEW JERSEY FOR GUN OWNERS’ CIVIL RIGHTS

From Second Amendment Foundation, which can always use your financial support with half a hundred pro-gun cases going at the moment: www.saf.org . FED. JUDGE GRANTS PRELIM. INJUNCTION AGAINST TENETS OF NJ GUN LAW A federal judge in New Jersey on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction in part against certain tenets in the Garden State’s […]