{"id":2531,"date":"2013-12-17T13:17:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2013-12-17T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:17:43","slug":"more-good-gun-related-books-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/more-good-gun-related-books-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE GOOD GUN-RELATED BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u201cGuns Across the Border<\/a>,\u201d Mike Detty gives the inside story of having been a firearms dealer working at the request of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in what was supposed to be an undercover sting against Mexican drug cartels.\u00a0 The resultant \u201cgunwalking\u201d scandal became a horrendous failure that undercover police officers will be warned against forevermore.\u00a0 The program, like the guns themselves, \u201cwent south.\u201d Some of those weapons were used to commit murder, including the death of a Border Patrolman named Brian Terry.\u00a0 The government, all the way to Washington, didn\u2019t handle the aftermath as ethically as I would like to have seen, either.\u00a0 In four decades of working within the criminal justice system, I never saw cops publicly proclaiming against their chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General of the United States, until this case.\u00a0 But today I see cops who post on the internet over a \u201csig line\u201d that says \u201cEric Holder lied, Brian Terry died.\u201d\u00a0 I know Mike Detty, and I trust him.\u00a0 His insider account is \u201cmust reading\u201d on this topic, whether you are a law enforcement officer or a concerned citizen.<\/p>\n

\u201cCornered Cat,<\/a>\u201d the classic blog<\/a>\u00a0 turned book, is now available as an audiobook in time for a Christmas download, on Audible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Cornered Cat is a great resource for defensively-oriented gun people of all genders and experience levels, its greatest strength is that it\u2019s written by a woman, for women, and particularly valuable to entry level shooters.\u00a0 Author Kathy Jackson is a friend and fellow instructor\u2026she knows her stuff, and is a tremendous role model.<\/p>\n

Independence Institute is, until New Year\u2019s Eve, running a fabulous offer on Steve Halbrook\u2019s books<\/a>\"securing<\/a>. Steve is one of the all-time great legal scholars of the Second Amendment, and was a major player in recent SCOTUS decisions in that regard. When he and I taught at a recent Texas Bar Association symposium, I managed to pick up an autographed copy of his \u201cSecuring Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms.\u201d\u00a0 Very much on point to recent dialogues we\u2019ve had here.\u00a0 The Independence Institute package represents a great value on Christmas gift books for those in your life who are interested in all manner of civil rights issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u201cGuns Across the Border,\u201d Mike Detty gives the inside story of having been a firearms dealer working at the request of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in what was supposed to be an undercover sting against Mexican drug cartels.\u00a0 The resultant \u201cgunwalking\u201d scandal became a horrendous failure that undercover police officers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gifts-for-shooters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}