Accessories Concealed Carry Featured Guns Handguns Legal Optics & Sights Self-Defense Trending How Gun Decorations Can Send the Wrong Message to a Jury By Massad Ayoob • April 27, 2018 Editor’s note: We at Personal Defense World know full well that a gun’s paint job, engraving and the like have no... Read more »
Ammo Concealed Carry Featured Guns Handgun Ammo Handguns Revolvers M&P340 Review: Mas Ayoob Examines His Go-To Backup Gun By Massad Ayoob • February 28, 2018 Since 1950, Smith & Wesson’s snub-nose J-Frame revolver series has just about defined its own genre. Of its many variations,... Read more »
Featured Legal Self-Defense Trending Ayoob: 5 Cases That Show the Dangers of a Hair Trigger on Your Gun By Massad Ayoob • February 23, 2018 Police instructors and attorneys with experience often warn that using a gun with a “hair trigger” can be quicksand in... Read more »
Competition Shooting Featured Guns Handguns Legal Revolvers Training Trending Ayoob: Making Long-Range Shots With Short-Barreled Guns By Massad Ayoob • February 8, 2018 I must have missed the treaty the bad guys signed that promised they’d allow the good guys to get closer... Read more »
Featured Legal Self-Defense Ayoob: Myths & Missteps That Lose Justifiable Homicide Cases By Massad Ayoob • January 3, 2018 Fact: Lawyers make mistakes. Certain courtroom strategies that have become conventional wisdom in typical assault/homicide defense cases tend to have poor... Read more »
Featured Legal Self-Defense Trending 7 Cases That Show Why Warning Shots Are a Bad Idea By Massad Ayoob • October 23, 2017 In the first quarter of 2017, the prestigious International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) announced a new recommended policy... Read more »
Featured Guns Handguns Revolvers Shooting 101 Trending 7 Reasons Why New Shooters Need Revolvers By Massad Ayoob • August 10, 2017 Revolvers have yielded to semi-automatic pistols in popularity for some time, but this certainly doesn’t make them obsolete. Many gun-wise... Read more »
Featured Legal Self-Defense Trending 5 Deadly Force Cases with Heavy Legal Consequences for the Good Guy By Massad Ayoob • June 29, 2017 After decades in the criminal justice system and 30-some years of working on federal- and state-level lawsuits related to deadly force,... Read more »
Featured Gear Legal Self-Defense Storage 6 Cases of an Armed Citizen Saving a Cop From a Bad Guy By Massad Ayoob • April 18, 2017 In mid-November of 2016 in Lee County, Florida, a man led a sheriff’s deputy on a chase at speeds exceeding... Read more »
Concealed Carry Featured Gear Guns Handguns Legal Self-Defense Storage 10 Events Where a Pocket Pistol Saved the Day By Massad Ayoob • April 6, 2017 In the culture war known as “gun control,” those who would abolish the cherished American right to keep and bear arms... Read more »
