Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 59

“YOU WANT AMMO WITH THAT?”

“…and while we’re at it, would you like to super-size your order? We can give you a five-hundred or thousand-round case instead of just that fifty-round box…” Yes, brothers and sisters, the Covid-19 crisis has led us to…drive-through gun sales. … Read more

WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?

Well, depending when and where you saw him, it might have been…me. When this whole thing started, we were told that people wearing bandannas and even N95 masks in public were fools: “Don’t you idiots know that just cloth won’t … Read more

ABOUT ALL THOSE FIRST-TIME GUN BUYERS

We’ve had several cycles of so-called “panic buying” of firearms and ammunition in the last twenty years.  There was Y2K, when credible authorities warned us that the ticking of the clocks into the Year 2000 would blast all of the … Read more

SOME HOPEFULLY TIMELY THOUGHTS

Yesterday was my father’s birthday. If he’d lived past 88, he’d be 120 years old today. Born in 1900, he lived through two world wars and the Great Depression. He and his father, the first of our linear family to … Read more

A USEFUL DRILL IS OFFERED

Though you wouldn’t know it in the time of coronavirus social isolation, my primary day job is teaching the judicious application of lethal force, and how to effectively shoot under pressure. (http://massadayoobgroup.com) I’m effectively out of work (that work, anyway) … Read more

SO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY ST. PADDY’S DAY

So, being that I’m in semi-voluntary “self-isolation” at home and my lovely bride, the Evil Princess, is a thousand or so miles away taking care of her sick mom (NOT COVID-19, thank God), I was left to my own devices … Read more

APPARENTLY, CORONAVIRUS AGGRAVATES ANTI-GUN STUPIDITY (AND HYPOCRISY)

Acerbic liberal comedian Bill Maher has admitted that he owns guns for personal protection, yet on his show he recently said of the pandemic-inspired gun-buying surge, “So American … I’ll shoot the virus! … We don’t do smart stuff in … Read more

IN A TIME OF AMMO SHORTAGE

In the latest surge of buying that is emptying gun store inventory, the ammo is going out the door faster than the guns.  A gun with no ammunition is like a working stove combined with an empty pantry: pretty much … Read more

THINGS TO COME

It’s obviously too early to predict the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, because we can’t even predict its course reliably.  A few things, however, seem certain. As has happened in other times of disaster, more people became gun owners.  Virtually … Read more

DAMN YOU, FLU MANCHU!

As a boy, I read Sax Rohmer’s “Fu Manchu” novels. The evil doctor came out of China to try to dominate the world, using what he described as “fungi and my tiny allies, the bacilli” and leaving conventional weapons to … Read more