{"id":9067,"date":"2026-01-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9067"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:32:44","slug":"sharing-an-experts-thoughts-on-the-manual-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/sharing-an-experts-thoughts-on-the-manual-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"SHARING AN EXPERT\u2019S THOUGHTS ON THE MANUAL SAFETY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paul Howe is one of the nation\u2019s recognized experts on the use of firearms in life-threating stress situations.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combatshootingandtactics.com\/post\/the-mechanical-safety-use-it-or-take-the-gamble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here <\/a>he talks about the importance of using the manual safety on powerful weapons deployed under extreme pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve never heard of Paul Howe, I\u2019m glad we caught you in time. When this man talks, professionals listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank another solid professional and good friend, Greg Ellifretz, for turning me on to the article I share with you below. Howe is talking about long guns but it\u2019s just as important with manual safety-equipped pistols such as the 1911 or the Browning High Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Howe is one of the nation\u2019s recognized experts on the use of firearms in life-threating stress situations.\u00a0 Here he talks about the importance of using the manual safety on powerful weapons deployed under extreme pressure. If you\u2019ve never heard of Paul Howe, I\u2019m glad we caught you in time. When this man talks, professionals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9067","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\/9067","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=9067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9069,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions\/9069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}