Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 62

A NEW YEAR SAFETY THOUGHT

No matter how cool we think we are with our gun handling, complacency is a constant and implacable enemy.  A lot of shooters mistakenly think “good trigger pull” is synonymous with “light trigger pull,” and that ain’t necessarily so. Check … Read more

REUNION REVELATIONS PART VI: STOP THE BLEED

I’ve saved for last the course that was presented first at the MAG reunion: a full Stop The Bleed™ class, with certification, taught by veteran paramedic and paramedic instructor Stacy Kitchens. In some ways, it was the most important. A … Read more

REUNION REVELATIONS PART V: HAND TO HAND

Tak Kubota’s self-defense techniques work fine with the D-Jammer keychain I came up with in the ’80s for clearing jammed guns, and the ubiquitous Mini-Mag flashlight. I’ve always taught the handgun as a threat management tool, and only one of … Read more

REUNION REVELATIONS PART IV: SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS

Did Santa bring you a new semiautomatic pistol? Or did you have one (or more) already? No matter – you would have benefited as much either way from David Maglio’s class on getting maximum speed with accuracy from such a … Read more

REUNION REVELATIONS PART III: THE FACE OF THE ENEMY

It’s about that time of year when all bloggers offer up Merry Christmas posts. OK, here’s a Christmas present for you: some nuggets of solid gold from Dr. William Aprill’s presentation at our Massad Ayoob Group Reunion in early December. … Read more

REUNION REVELATIONS PART II: REVOLVER

At the Massad Ayoob Group Reunion last week, one of the featured speakers was Marty Hayes, who came about three thousand miles from his home turf at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington to teach a double action revolver … Read more

REUNION REVELATIONS: PART I

At Massad Ayoob Group, we finished the 2019 training calendar with our Ten Year Reunion. All attendees and all instructors were our past graduates, with some of the most distinguished in the field teaching four-hour blocs.  Among them were Tom … Read more

WHY OUR ARMED SERVICES NEED TO BE ARMED

The occasional serviceman goes nuts and murders his own. The occasional jihadi (often from an allied nation) gets into the inner circles close enough to mass murder American military personnel on base. In at least one case the terrorist did … Read more

Stupid Statements

I recently ran across this in Snopes In a time when we are debating “Red Flag Laws,” do we agree that this sort of homicidal hyperbole is monumentally stupid? My “day job,” if you will, is teaching the judicious and … Read more

R.I.P. ED NOWICKI, SUPERCOP

Sad tidings: the passing this week of Ed Nowicki in Wisconsin.  My career has brought me into contact with literally thousands of cops.  A very few among them deserved the title Supercop. Ed was one such. Nowicki began his career … Read more