Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 52

A MATTER OF TRUST

We are told that somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 National Guard troops have been brought into the District of Columbia “for security” during the Presidential Inauguration. Great way to express trust in the American people. And we notice that in virtually every photo of those troops distributed thus far, they are armed with rifles that […]

A BIT OF TIMELY REVIEW

In the commentary on my next-to-last entry here, one reader reminded us of something I posted in this space a couple of years ago. Click the link to the essay by my friend Larry Correia and please read in depth. It’s as timely today as it was then. Given recent political events and threats to […]

PLEASE READ

Shutdown of conservative voices in the various media is, if anything, scarier than the way a pro-Trump protest went downhill in the Capitol the other day. We learned yesterday that GoDaddy had shut down the popular gun forum AR15.com, citing advocacy for violence. Regular visitors here know that in the many years this blog has […]

PROPOSED GUN LAW INSANITY

So, what could our new Democrat overlords possibly want to impose on the law-abiding firearms owners of America? Only this. Please read. The stakes are high. Thanks to the Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and GAT Guns for making this available.

JUSTICE IN ACTION IN KENOSHA

As I explained here in August the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin was poorly and incompletely reported as a presumably racially-motivated shooting of an unarmed black man by white police. In fact, Blake was armed with a lethal weapon and within a fraction of a second of stabbing the officer who shot him […]

SAME GUN ALL THE TIME FOR EVERYTHING, OR…?

I’m not entirely sure who first said, “Beware the man with only one gun…he probably knows how to use it.”  I think it may have been the late, great Elmer Keith. It’s not a one hundred percent truism…there are a lot of people who don’t know how to use the gun(s) they own, unfortunately … […]

REFLECTIONS ON THE NEW YEAR

If I stay up past midnight on New Year’s Eve, it won’t be so much to see the new year in as to make sure the last year is really over… Not that it will do a damn bit of good. I expect January 1, 2021 to find us in the exact same leaky boat […]

EXCELLENT READING

Greg Ellifritz, recently retired from a distinguished career in law enforcement in Ohio, is now available to teach open-enrollment (i.e., “civilian”) classes around the nation. I’ve found his training to be absolutely top-notch, and it is internationally recognized as such. If you can’t train with him, you can learn from him at his excellent blog, www.activeresponsetraining.net.  LOTS […]

60

Sixty and sixty. It was sixty years ago, the year was 1960, and all these Christmases later, no gift has been more memorable than my cornerstone present that year. I had read the work of Col. Jeff Cooper and told my parents the only thing I wanted for Christmas was what the good colonel had […]

A CHRISTMAS GIFT YOU CAN GIVE TO SHOOTERS…NO CHARGE

My lovely bride and I wish you all the best of all possible holiday seasons. We want to remind you of an opportunity to give a gift to a great many brother and sister gun owners. The gun prohibitionists are hot to ban “stabilizing braces” for carbine-like pistols such as short barreled AR15 actions.  They […]