https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/the-five-point-check-list-reviewed/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/the-five-point-check-list-reviewed/#respond Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9217 The treatment for one illness may be fatally contradicted for another. So it is in medicine, and so in can be in law, specifically self-defense law. A classic example is the advice, “Say nothing to police except ‘I want to call a lawyer!’ after you’ve shot a criminal in self-defense.”  Not talking to police is great […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/the-five-point-check-list-reviewed/feed/ 0 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:53:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9213 A classic case of home defense from a little more than a century ago reminds us of core Castle Doctrine principles, an American inheritance from the English Common Law. It appeared in my decades-long Ayoob Files series in American Handgunner magazine. As always, your commentary is invited.  ]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson/feed/ 8 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/worth-repeating/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/worth-repeating/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9210 If you have a few minutes, I’d like to remind you that in the “gun debate,” our side uses logic and the other side has only emotion…but if we are smart, we’ll appeal to emotion AND logic. Here’s how I put it a couple of years ago at the 2024 Gun Rights Policy Conference: or […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/worth-repeating/feed/ 4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/paul-harrell-on-point-shooting/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/paul-harrell-on-point-shooting/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9161 Doing research for an article elsewhere, I ran across this video by the late, great PaulHarrell. I never met the man, but always found his work of value.]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/paul-harrell-on-point-shooting/feed/ 4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-funny-story/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-funny-story/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9184 I think I’ve mentioned in the past the pitfalls of having a gun in New York State, and people getting arrested for illegal possession when they checked in at an airport counter and didn’t have NY state issued paper for it.  This story comes from my friend John, a retired cop in California: Some years back […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-funny-story/feed/ 33 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/bill-wilsons-guns-shooting-and-hunting/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/bill-wilsons-guns-shooting-and-hunting/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:00:30 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9194 I first met Bill Wilson at my favorite shooting match, the old Second Chance Shoot now known as The Pin Shoot, in 1977. (www.pinshoot.com) The man has impressed me ever since. He won that event more than once, along with many others, and established himself as a world class shooter. Bill founded the International Defensive […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/bill-wilsons-guns-shooting-and-hunting/feed/ 1 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/milestone/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/milestone/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9201 One of the country’s best armed defense instructors is retiring. Here’s the official announcement: David Maglio has been a student of the gun for the past five plus decades, starting in 1975.  His first accomplishments were earning the Rifle Expert and Pistol Expert awards in the U.S. Marine Corps.  After his Honorable Discharge, he was hired as […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/milestone/feed/ 13 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-traffic-stop-when-you-are-legally-carrying/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-traffic-stop-when-you-are-legally-carrying/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9179 You are legally carrying your gun when the blue and red lights flicker in the rearview mirror. You pull over. How do you handle it? There is some terrible advice out there on YouTube. One video advises that if the officer asks if you have any guns in the car, you should reply, “I do […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-traffic-stop-when-you-are-legally-carrying/feed/ 20 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/chuck-norris-passes/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/chuck-norris-passes/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9197 When the word came recently that Chuck Norris had died, almost everyone said in one way or another, “There was a man!” Amen. Norris’ fighting skills weren’t all that made him someone to emulate. He was said to be humble, kind, and charitable. There are some martial arts movies stars who were accused of being arrogant, […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/chuck-norris-passes/feed/ 12 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/two-profound-recent-lessons/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/two-profound-recent-lessons/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9181 We’ve known since the Ma’alot Massacre that the answer to mass murder of the helpless was good people right there at ground zero who are armed and can immediately respond to the attack.  In recent days, we’ve seen two graphic examples of this. In the attack on the synagogue, only one security person was injured and […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/two-profound-recent-lessons/feed/ 18