Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 63

IMPORTANT READING

Sociologist David Yamane has become one of the strongest voices of reason in the polarized debate over American gun ownership and usage.  I’m proud to call him a friend and a graduate. Here’s his latest, which will be the final … Read more

A GREAT GUN SHOP CLOSES

Riley’s Sport Shop in Hooksett, NH, was my favorite gun shop for many years. Many a gun owner in the area was saddened when Riley’s closed their doors last month. The business started small in Manchester, NH, but gunsmith Dick … Read more

TROOPER OF THE YEAR

From our friends at SIG-Sauer: https://www.sigsauer.com/trooper-of-t... This is the sort of thing the late Col. Jeff Cooper called “a feat of arms.”  Hostage female being stabbed, her would-be murderer in close proximity.  The Texas state trooper firing effective rescue shots … Read more

SOME INTERESTING BITS OF HISTORY

A longtime student of Depression-era bad guys and the lawmen who chased them, I came late to the 2007 book “The Complete Public Enemy Almanac” by William Helmer and Rick Mattix.  The latter I’m unfamiliar with, but Helmer is perhaps … Read more

IMPORTANT READING

Are you involved in the gun debate? Do you feel like a combatant – or an innocent victim – in a culture war? If you answer yes to either, read this. Thanks to our friend Tam Keel at her excellent … Read more

THE WILSON 5×5 DRILL

Not having shot an IDPA (International Defensive Pistol Association) match since January 2018, and feeling a need to do so before shooting their big Sheepdog match next month, I shot the Monster Match conducted by Little River gun club in … Read more

COMBAT SEMANTICS 202

Let us have a word with your inner semanticist. Courtesy of friend and blog reader Steve Denney. … Read more

R.I.P. BOB SCHWARTZ

God, I hate losing the good ones. I knew Bob Schwartz for more than thirty years. He had fought cancer before and won. This time, it came on him too fast and too hard for his iron constitution to conquer. … Read more

TWO MORE WOMEN WITH GUNS

The last entry here spoke of Mandy Bachman, the role model young woman who just won the world champion female honors via the International Defensive Pistol Association. In the recent news, we have two more women with guns, one good … Read more

ALPHA FEMALE!

We learned last week that Mandy Bachman had become the 2019 world champion woman of the International Defensive Pistol Association. The Evil Princess and I met this wonderful young woman and her husband in September at an event sponsored by … Read more