{"id":9258,"date":"2026-05-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:22:50","slug":"talking-about-the-greatest-handguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/talking-about-the-greatest-handguns\/","title":{"rendered":"TALKING ABOUT THE GREATEST HANDGUNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few years ago when my book \u201cGreatest Handguns\u201d came out from the Gun Digest people, we did this interview explaining what the selection process had been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, such choices would be largely subjective, but the interview went to the objective part. The book turned out to be so popular that we did a second volume, to include the great pistols and revolvers that had been \u201cleft on the cutting room floor\u201d from the first volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both are available on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4nWQ4XO\">Volume I here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4aaSMTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volume !! here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I still stand by the choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gun Digest Interviews Massad Ayoob on Greatest Handguns - Part 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IhzwkK6J70o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IhzwkK6J70o?si=a8Xb9DEK6SJLQrSU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago when my book \u201cGreatest Handguns\u201d came out from the Gun Digest people, we did this interview explaining what the selection process had been. Obviously, such choices would be largely subjective, but the interview went to the objective part. The book turned out to be so popular that we did a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9258","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\/9258","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=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9260,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/9260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}