{"id":8381,"date":"2024-06-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2024-06-02T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T01:48:44","slug":"let-me-share-some-good-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/let-me-share-some-good-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"LET ME SHARE SOME GOOD ADVICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As he so often does, ace trainer Greg Ellifretz brought <a href=\"https:\/\/unclezo.com\/2024\/05\/09\/tinkering-with-the-defensive-pistol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this article<\/a> to my attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure who \u201cUncle Zo\u201d is, but he\u2019s absolutely spot on in this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an expert witness for 45 years now in weapons and shooting cases, I\u2019ve seen a bunch of both criminal and civil attorneys try to say that this or that modification to a defensive firearm created an element of recklessness or negligence. I sometimes carry custom guns, but none will have trigger pulls lighter than factory spec and \u201ccommon custom and practice for that type of duty weapon.\u201d I will not carry a gun which has had a safety device removed or deactivated. I will not carry a gun with a name that sounds like something out of a Rambo fantasy, nor with an emblem like the Punisher skull.&nbsp;&nbsp;I do not give weapons to my opponents, whether the fight is on the street or in the courtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uncle Zo has good advice. And if you ever have a chance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activeresponsetraining.net\/available-classes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">train with Greg Ellifretz<\/a>, do so. The man is one of the genuine stars in the self-defense training business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he so often does, ace trainer Greg Ellifretz brought this article to my attention.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure who \u201cUncle Zo\u201d is, but he\u2019s absolutely spot on in this article. As an expert witness for 45 years now in weapons and shooting cases, I\u2019ve seen a bunch of both criminal and civil attorneys try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8381","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\/8381","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=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}