https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-news-nation-take-on-the-bend-incident/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-news-nation-take-on-the-bend-incident/#respond Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9451 In mid-October an apparently mentally ill sixteen-year-old entered an elementary school in Bend, Oregon and murdered three children and an adult and wounded two more victims. His murder spree was cut short when a thirty-something father of two young students there happened to be passing by, saw the gunman approaching the school, and stopped his […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-news-nation-take-on-the-bend-incident/feed/ 0 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/vote/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/vote/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9458 The Evil Princess and I cast our ballots on the first day of early voting. Yes, it’s “only” the mid-terms…but it’s still important. Please, encourage everyone you know to get out there and vote.]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/vote/feed/ 7 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/what-the-heck-is-going-on-at-ruger/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/what-the-heck-is-going-on-at-ruger/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9447 Ruger is one of the world’s premier firearms manufacturers, and certainly one of the USA’s – and it has been much in the news today. First, the allegations that Italy’s Beretta was trying to take over this quintessentially American company, and second, the sudden discontinuance of some of Ruger’s most classic models.As to the latter, […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/what-the-heck-is-going-on-at-ruger/feed/ 18 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/of-bureaucracies-and-issue-firearms/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/of-bureaucracies-and-issue-firearms/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9444 Are you a gun enthusiast who might have wondered how law enforcement agencies choose their issue firearms? One data point is the California Highway Patrol, with somewhere around ten thousand sworn members patrolling that state. Here, a retired CHP rangemaster with lots of institutional knowledge (and a dry sense of humor!) shares the inside story […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/of-bureaucracies-and-issue-firearms/feed/ 8 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/how-to-check-out-a-double-action-revolver/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/how-to-check-out-a-double-action-revolver/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9437 While some think the double action revolver is obsolete, there are many who still find effective use for it. Of late we’ve heard a lot of complaints about quality control on currently manufactured handguns of this type. One answer is to simply buy a good used one that was built earlier. But how do you […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/how-to-check-out-a-double-action-revolver/feed/ 7 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/they-call-him-saint-benitez/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/they-call-him-saint-benitez/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9433 Now-retired Federal Judge Roger Benitez made so many pro-gun decisions that many in the gun owners’ civil rights movement came to call him Saint Benitez. At the 2026 Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas last month, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens’ Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms I […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/they-call-him-saint-benitez/feed/ 4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/in-praise-of-tom-selleck/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/in-praise-of-tom-selleck/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9427 Tom Selleck is one of my favorite actors and favorite celebrities. I can’t think of a part he’s played that isn’t a role model for decency. I’ve never met the man, unfortunately, but I’m happy to say he is One Of Us.In addition to his many years as a director of the National Rifle Association, […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/in-praise-of-tom-selleck/feed/ 23 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/remembering-evan-marshall/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/remembering-evan-marshall/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9423 We recently lost Evan Marshall, a valued friend and a famous cop. Evan Marshall was a strong and early voice in the officer survival training movement, and is believed to have originated the term “street survival.” He passed a few days before his 84th birthday.Evan’s solid advice in gun magazines and law enforcement professional journals […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/remembering-evan-marshall/feed/ 20 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/should-you-always-get-off-the-x/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/should-you-always-get-off-the-x/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9418 In armed self-defense training, “get off the X” means don’t be standing still in a gunfight. The theory is that a static target is easier for your opponent to hit. True enough, but the totality of the circumstances is sometimes such that “standing your ground” and shooting from a solid stance is the defender’s best […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/should-you-always-get-off-the-x/feed/ 12 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/gun-rights-policy-conference-2026/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9415 This year’s GRPC was one of the best ever. If you couldn’t make it to Dallas for the event, you can watch it on YouTube here and here.Highlights include Judge Benitez (known as “Saint Benitez” by gun rights advocates) and the current Trump administration-appointed head of ATF, who promises a new respect for Second Amendment […]]]>