{"id":8839,"date":"2025-06-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:23:15","slug":"while-were-on-the-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/while-were-on-the-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"WHILE WE\u2019RE ON THE TOPIC\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a few posts ago we published <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/medium-power-can-get-the-job-done\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, in this space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was mention of the cop from NYPD who had used his then-standard .38 Special to win a gunfight initiated by a thug with a .45 auto, in the reader comments. That reminded me of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsmagazine.com\/discover\/shoot-smaller-handguns-better\/\" target=\"_blank\">something I\u2019d written<\/a> not too long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both items of content come from the same source: Publishers Development Corporation, which produces <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GUNS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Handgunner<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shootingindustry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shooting Industry<\/a> along with some special one-off titles. I\u2019ve been writing for them for a few decades, and enjoying and learning from them for longer than that.\u00a0 All strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few posts ago we published this, in this space. There was mention of the cop from NYPD who had used his then-standard .38 Special to win a gunfight initiated by a thug with a .45 auto, in the reader comments. That reminded me of something I\u2019d written not too long ago. Both items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8839","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\/8839","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=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}