Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 47

BIRTHDAY MUSINGS

Happy birthday to…me.  73 times around the sun for the old guy here.  Been a fun ride for the most part, and a productive one.  I hope to stay on this merry-go-round for the foreseeable future. There are days when I feel every one of those years: arthritis, sciatica, and the assorted vicissitudes of olditude.  Yet there are days […]

WOULD JOE BIDEN LIE ABOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

The Washington Post has called out President Biden for falsehood about the Second Amendment via the Western Journal. Your thoughts?

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES

From Rob Morse, via “The Price of Liberty”: Perspective is important…

MISSED!

So there we were…right in the crosshairs…             And she missed us.             It would be bad luck to mock Mother Nature, I suppose, but we had been dead in Hurricane Elsa ‘s projected path.  Filling sandbags and the whole nine yards.  Turned out all we got was some heavy rain.  Not even any appreciable […]

WHY YOU CAN’T REPLACE COPS WITH SOCIAL WORKERS

People who do not have to deal with the violently mentally ill don’t understand why they sometimes have to be harmed – by the police who are trying to restrain them, or by intended victims saving themselves from what used to be called colloquially “madmen” (and “madwomen”). The “Defund the Police” trope has gone hand […]

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Gun owners’ civil rights are among the things we celebrate on this day.  We all do remember what triggered Lexington and Concord, right?  It’s also a good day to tip the hat to our now-longtime allies the British (bygones, after all, can be bygones) and remember that their Lord Blackstone, the great commentator on the […]

A LONG – AND VERY IMPORTANT – READ

My old friend Stephen Halbrook has proven himself to be not only a brilliant trial advocate, but also a brilliant historian of gun laws.  I offer you his latest, a long read but one rich in the history of gun owners’ civil rights in American courts.  If you know anyone who is on the fence […]

WOMEN’S HANDGUNS TODAY

Robyn Sandoval of A Girl And A Gun recently took my MAG-40 class in South Dakota, and while there, she gave me permission to share this list she put together.  Though it probably understates how many LCP-size .380s and snub .38 revolvers are being carried by women today, the guns folks take to pistol class […]

MANUFACTURER LIABILITY?

Jim Beam bourbon and the Colt .45 auto are both iconic American products.  It is possible for fools and criminals alike to abuse both. Should either manufacturer be held liable for such misdeeds?  Of course not…but the Biden administration wants to hold the firearms industry responsible for individual foolishness and evil that is beyond the […]

PIN SHOOT RETROSPECTIVE

The Pin Shoot, my favorite match of the year, ended yesterday after a week of perfect weather. At any given time, the line of 27 three-tiered pin tables was well occupied. With three tables at each of the nine shooting stations, one might find nine shooters running individual events, or the same number of three-person […]