{"id":4382,"date":"2017-10-13T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2017-10-13T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:59:54","slug":"if-you-have-about-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/if-you-have-about-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU HAVE ABOUT AN HOUR\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, last spring at the NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, the day after I spoke to the collection of attorneys at the NRA\u2019s annual Firearms Law Seminar, I did an interview on the show floor with the folks from <a href=\"https:\/\/viridianweapontech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viridian<\/a>, who make many very cool firearms accessories.<\/p>\n<p>I was there to speak mostly to what I\u2019ve seen in four and a half decades in the criminal justice system: a sworn police officer for forty-some years until my recent retirement from that; 1988 to June of 2017 as a police prosecutor for a municipal police department in a northern New England state; and <em>mainly<\/em>, 1979 to present as an expert witness for the courts in cases involving weapons and deadly force.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6wfti70ZTyw?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOr you can find it at :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wfti70ZTyw&amp;feature=youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wfti70ZTyw&amp;feature=youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It runs a little over fifty minutes.\u00a0 The topic was self-defense by law-abiding armed citizens, though some elements of line-of-duty police shootings were also discussed.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the time and the inclination, you\u2019re invited to watch\u2026and of course, to comment here.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Viridian had just introduced a camera that fits on a gun to record its use.\u00a0 They are getting one of those units to me to test, and I\u2019m looking forward to that \u2026 and you\u2019ll see some of the results here in due time.\u00a0 But, interesting thing \u2013 they recorded the whole discussion on those gun cameras, and I am <em>very <\/em>impressed with how sharply and distinctly the images and sound came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, last spring at the NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, the day after I spoke to the collection of attorneys at the NRA\u2019s annual Firearms Law Seminar, I did an interview on the show floor with the folks from Viridian, who make many very cool firearms accessories. I was there to speak mostly to what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4385"}],"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=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}