Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 33

GUN FIT

We’ve welcomed literally millions of new owners into the firearms world in the last couple of years, and a great many of them are female.  The word that applies is “empowerment.” But another word which applies is “fit.”  Historically, most firearms have been designed and built for males, who on average run bigger with longer arms and […]

THIRTEEN MINUTES OF YOUR TIME, PLEASE

I’ve been saying for years that the mainstream media has been inspiring mass murderers, by giving them intense publicity for their crimes. (And, hypocritically, blaming gun owners and firearms manufacturers.) REASON magazine apparently agrees.  Please take thirteen minutes to view their take on it, and spread it as far as you can.

MEANINGLESS AMMO LIMIT SHOT DOWN

Until recently, if you had a permit to carry a gun in the District of Columbia, local law kept you limited to twenty rounds of ammo on your person. Dick Heller – the named plaintiff in the historic 2A victory known as Heller v. District of Columbia – has another notch on his gun, so to speak.  It […]

SOME VERY INTERESTING READING

From “Reason” magazine. Your comments, as always, are invited.

YOU ARE INVITED

The annual Gun Rights Policy Conference is coming up the end of this month. We’d love to see you there, mingling with and learning from the people who are winning the gun owners’ civil rights fight in the courts and in the legislatures, at local to state to national level. Info is here. If you […]

LESSONS FROM SKUNK WORKS

“Skunk Works” was the nickname of the research and development program headed for many years by the late Ben Rich, author of the book of the same title. From that crystallization of American ingenuity came super-speed stealth aircraft that were almost unimaginable when this crew of brilliant engineers made them a reality. Rich worked on […]

SEE HOW BAD THE NEW CALIFORNIA LAW WILL BE

It’s not just New York State that has reacted to the Bruen decision with venomously anti-gun legislation.  It’s California, too. Since the video below was made, the grim proposal missed passage by only a single vote. However, prohibitionists are promising to try again to get it through. Allow 55 minutes to listen to the pro-gun […]

OLD GEAR STILL WORKS

Sleek high tech is all the rage in the firearms world today, but it’s worth noting that some of the “gear of yesteryear” still works as well as it always did. Case in point: I recently ran across this article from a few years ago in GUNS magazine, where I’ve written the monthly handgun column […]

A GOOD MAN PASSES

We have recently learned of the passing of James Yeager, who had been courageously fighting ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease.   I’ve known James Yeager for many years. A noted and controversial instructor of armed self-defense, he was famous for promulgating the “Get Off the X” theory, combining tactical evasive movement with return fire.  He had one persona […]

PSYCHOLOGIST, ANALYZE THYSELF

My friend and colleague Steve Sager and I were driving back from a homicide case in Montgomery, Alabama when I picked up the local Eagle newspaper while passing through Dothan. Therein I found a point/counterpoint on the opinion page, reference the case of the heroic young man who stopped a mass murder recently in Indiana.  The paper titled […]