{"id":8794,"date":"2025-05-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T03:22:37","slug":"the-future-of-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-future-of-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FUTURE OF THE GUN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Frank Miniter, both a contributor to&nbsp;<em>Forbes&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>and a field editor for&nbsp;<em>American Hunter,&nbsp;<\/em>wrote the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3GInW9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Future of the Gun<\/a>\u201d eleven years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;I came to it late but I\u2019m glad I finally found it. I have seldom read such a thorough compendium of exposing the BS of the \u201cgun control\u201d movement, debunking argument by specious argument with facts, logic, and simple common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than a decade after its publication we\u2019ve seen the rise of the permitless concealed carry movement, with 29 of the 50 states no longer requiring a permit for law-abiding citizens of sound mind to carry loaded, concealed handguns in public to protect themselves and other innocent people for whose safety they are responsible.&nbsp;&nbsp;We have lived to see the United States Supreme Court\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Bruen&nbsp;<\/em>decision that said to Hell with discriminatory \u201cmay issue\u201d concealed carry permits schemes, any such permitting process would have to be&nbsp;<em>\u201cshall&nbsp;<\/em>issue.\u201d We have come a long way, as Miniter had predicted we would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, no one can predict the future 100%.&nbsp;&nbsp;The futuristic pistol which appeared on the cover of the book turned out to be a jam-amatic piece of junk and has, thankfully, long since been discontinued, but there was no way for Miniter to see that coming so he can\u2019t be blamed. Super high-tech and super-expensive computerized sighting systems that the anti-gunners feared would turn any incompetent would-be mass murderer into a deadly, inescapable sniper have not taken over the firearms market as some predicted in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish \u201cThe Future of the Gun\u201d had become a major best-seller.\u00a0\u00a0It is filled with wisdom and solid critical thinking on this polarized issue.\u00a0\u00a0You should still be able to find a copy on e-Bay, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3GInW9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon.com<\/a>, or your local library system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solid, recommended reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Miniter, both a contributor to&nbsp;Forbes&nbsp;&nbsp;and a field editor for&nbsp;American Hunter,&nbsp;wrote the book \u201cThe Future of the Gun\u201d eleven years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;I came to it late but I\u2019m glad I finally found it. I have seldom read such a thorough compendium of exposing the BS of the \u201cgun control\u201d movement, debunking argument by specious argument with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8794","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\/8794","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=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}