Massad Ayoob on Guns
KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY
The current (July/August 2022) issue of American Handgunner carries my article on testing the Smith & Wesson CSX 9mm pistol that was introduced a few months ago. I was very much impressed with the gun, and wound...
THE IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY WE’RE UP AGAINST
Over at the stalwart website The Zelman Partisans, gun owners’ civil rights advocate Carl Bussjaeger calls out an anti-gunner’s screed.
It pains me to link to something as stupid as that which Bussjaeger righteously fisks,...
WHEN ONE OF OURS GOES TO THE OTHER SIDE
I just finished reading “Gunfight” by Ryan Busse, a former vice-president of Kimber. The subtitle is “My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America.” Busse was happy to be in charge of sales for...
WORKING FOR GOD
Over the years I’ve graduated from several homicide investigation and officer-involved shooting investigation courses, and taught my share myself. One of the best I was fortunate enough to go through was Advanced Homicide Investigation, taught...
GOING RETRO
Did you ever go bird hunting and decide, even though you had the latest and greatest autoloading shotgun, you were gonna go afield with an old-fashioned double barrel “just because”?
Or deer hunting with an...
THE PIN SHOOT LOOMS
I’d be remiss if I didn’t remind you that what I consider the coolest of all shooting matches is coming up in June. Whether your choice is pistol or revolver, shotgun or carbine, there’s...
THE AR15 FOR HOME DEFENSE
Prohibitionists want to ban it. We want to keep it. I argue for the AR15 as an armed citizen’s home defense weapon.
https://youtu.be/mgvuW3OpfLk
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
By the time you read this I’ll be back at home base. It’s been five weeks on the road: two shooting trials, a bunch of classes, and the inimitable Rangemaster Tactical Conference which the...
JUSTICE IN FEDERAL COURT
One night in October 2016, Master Deputy Richard Palmer of the Lake County, Florida Sheriff’s Department received a call to proceed to a known meth house in a rural area, after a 9-1-1 caller...
REASONS I ENJOY EATING IN THE SOUTH
Southern fried chicken. Chicken-fried steak. Heck, chicken fried chicken. Black-eyed peas. And of course, grits. (A Southron tells his Yankee visitor, “C’mon, y’all gotta try grits just once.” The skeptical Yankee replies, “Uh…can I start with...
