{"id":8565,"date":"2024-10-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2024-10-20T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T16:10:05","slug":"another-great-gun-guy-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/another-great-gun-guy-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER GREAT GUN GUY PASSES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was saddened to be told of the recent death of my old friend Ed Lovette. He had a long and distinguished career in military, law enforcement, and the CIA. Ed was a thinking man\u2019s instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We took each other\u2019s classes. He went through my LFI-I course back in the day , and about thirty years ago I took his course in point-shooting at an American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers seminar in Virginia. Ed taught Lou Chiodo\u2019s take on the Rex Applegate system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed Lovette \u201cTalked the Talk and Walked the Walk.\u201d He spoke from experience. He may have been most famous for his articulate advocacy of the snub-nose revolver as a close-range self-defense weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what our mutual friend <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingwire.com\/features\/232193\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Grassi had to say about Ed.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed joined another mutual friend, Dave Spaulding, in writing an outstanding book on general personal protection. He was interviewed by the always-on-point Gila Hayes of the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network on how to avoid criminals, <a href=\"https:\/\/armedcitizensnetwork.org\/beneath-the-radar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed Lovette will not be forgotten in the world of the gun. Rest in peace, Brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to be told of the recent death of my old friend Ed Lovette. He had a long and distinguished career in military, law enforcement, and the CIA. Ed was a thinking man\u2019s instructor. We took each other\u2019s classes. He went through my LFI-I course back in the day , and about thirty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8565","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\/8565","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=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}