{"id":6578,"date":"2020-11-30T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:54:25","slug":"a-great-book-new-and-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-great-book-new-and-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"A GREAT BOOK, NEW AND IMPROVED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Paladin\nPress went out of business, the Jim Cirillo books went with them. Old copies of\nJim\u2019s own book \u201cGuns, Bullets, and Gunfighting\u201d is now only available used, on\nAmazon. Fortunately, Paul Kirchner kept the rights to his <\/em>book, \u201cJim Cirillo\u2019s Tales of the Stakeout Squad,\u201d and now has\na self-published, EXPANDED version available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul\u2019s\noriginal book was based mainly on his interviews with Jim, augmented by his\ninterviews with Jim\u2019s brother officers on NYPD\u2019s Stakeout Unit and others who\nknew, shot with, and\/or trained under Jim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SOU\ncomprised NYPD\u2019s ultimate gunfighters, selected for their marksmanship and\ncoolness under pressure. Almost every criminal they faced had a loaded gun in\nhis hand and his finger on the trigger. In the few years before political\ncorrectness caused enough ruckus to get them disbanded, they killed enough\narmed and violent criminals in shootouts to fill a churchyard cemetery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They learned\na great deal about prevailing against armed criminals trying to kill them along\nwith innocent victims. I knew Jim Cirillo very well, and learned a great deal\nfrom him. He was a funny, family-loving, God-fearing man, the sort you\u2019d want\nliving next door to you, and he put a bunch of bad guys in the ground when he\nhad to. We\u2019ll never know how many innocent lives he and his partners on the\nStakeout Unit saved. Cirillo was a Second Amendment stalwart, and wanted\nlaw-abiding armed citizens to know the life-saving lessons he and his brother\nofficers had learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original\nbook ran about 53,000 words. This edition, augmented by interviews with\nrelevant sources Paul was able to interview after the first one came out, runs\nalmost 69,000.  If you\u2019ve read the\noriginal, you want to see this new revised and expanded edition.  And, if you haven\u2019t read the original, you definitely <\/em>want to read this one.  Jim won his gun battles with old-school\ntechnology: a six-shot .38 Special revolver (or two, or three) and a five-shot\nIthaca slide action 12 gauge shotgun. It was about tactics, mindset,\npreparation and shooting ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cJim Cirillo\u2019s Tales of the Stakeout Squad\u201d\nwould make a great gift for any member of the \u201cgun culture\u201d who\u2019s on your Christmas\nlist.  Paul tells you how to order, here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new revised and expanded edition\nof “Jim Cirillo’s Tales of the Stakeout Squad” is $25, plus $3 for\nshipping; $28 total. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can buy it on Gunbroker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Paladin Press went out of business, the Jim Cirillo books went with them. Old copies of Jim\u2019s own book \u201cGuns, Bullets, and Gunfighting\u201d is now only available used, on Amazon. Fortunately, Paul Kirchner kept the rights to his book, \u201cJim Cirillo\u2019s Tales of the Stakeout Squad,\u201d and now has a self-published, EXPANDED version available. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6578","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\/6578","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=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}