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 »
Guns Handguns Revolvers Trending Custom Classic: Rebuilding a S&W Model 15-4 Snubbie for EDC By Massad Ayoob • April 3, 2017 It was one of those moments we firearms enthusiasts have in gun shops where you spot a gun in the... Read more »
Ammo Gear Handgun Ammo 3 Final Things to Consider When Deciding Between 9mm vs 45 vs 40 By Massad Ayoob • March 23, 2017 When it comes to selecting a duty/defensive handgun, there are issues that go beyond “stopping power.” Some of those are... Read more »
Ammo Gear Handgun Ammo Trending 9mm vs .40 vs .45: Which Chambering Has More ‘Stopping Power’? By Massad Ayoob • March 21, 2017 From the six-shooter days of the Western frontier onward, conventional wisdom has held that at typical handgun velocities, bigger bullets are better. Around... Read more »
Ammo Handgun Ammo Trending The Great Ammo Debate, Part I: Which is Best Between 9mm, .45 and .40? By Massad Ayoob • March 16, 2017 On the Internet, in some gun shops and even in training seminars, we have for some time heard the mantra,... Read more »