Massad Ayoob

To make a long story short, I was born into an armed household in 1948. I started carrying a gun...

I began writing this article the morning after the county school commission where I live approved a program to arm...

Editor’s note: We at Personal Defense World know full well that a gun’s paint job, engraving and the like have no...

Since 1950, Smith & Wesson’s snub-nose J-Frame revolver series has just about defined its own genre. Of its many variations,...

Police instructors and attorneys with experience often warn that using a gun with a “hair trigger” can be quicksand in...

I must have missed the treaty the bad guys signed that promised they’d allow the good guys to get closer...

Fact: Lawyers make mistakes. Certain courtroom strategies that have become conventional wisdom in typical assault/homicide defense cases tend to have poor...

In the first quarter of 2017, the prestigious International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) announced a new recommended policy...

After decades in the criminal justice system and 30-some years of working on federal- and state-level lawsuits related to deadly force,...

From the six-shooter days of the Western frontier onward, conventional wisdom has held that at typical handgun velocities, bigger bullets are better. Around...