{"id":8998,"date":"2025-11-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:59:10","slug":"guns-for-the-backwoods-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/guns-for-the-backwoods-home\/","title":{"rendered":"GUNS FOR THE BACKWOODS HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s an article I wrote twenty years ago for this blog\u2019s host, <em>Backwoods Home <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-backwoods-home-magazine wp-block-embed-backwoods-home-magazine\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Cwd0fWoBh5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/firearms\/\">Firearms \u2014 Tools of rural living<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Firearms \u2014 Tools of rural living&#8221; &#8212; Backwoods Home Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/firearms\/embed\/#?secret=1tSUCWAJvO#?secret=Cwd0fWoBh5\" data-secret=\"Cwd0fWoBh5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s still relevant today, although the mentioned prices have gone up significantly. There\u2019s one exception to that, though. With the trend toward 9mm pistols pre-cut to mount optical sights, there are a lot of 9mm, .45, and particularly .40 S&amp;W caliber semi-automatic pistols that have been traded in by police departments and are selling for bargain prices in the $300-400 range, like the Gen3 Glock 22 .40 in the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an article I wrote twenty years ago for this blog\u2019s host, Backwoods Home magazine. It\u2019s still relevant today, although the mentioned prices have gone up significantly. There\u2019s one exception to that, though. With the trend toward 9mm pistols pre-cut to mount optical sights, there are a lot of 9mm, .45, and particularly .40 S&amp;W [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8998","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\/8998","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=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}