Massad Ayoob Group

MASSAD AYOOB GROUP NEWS

CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVE MAGLIO
Dave has been one of the top instructors I’ve worked with over the years at LFI, and I’m glad to have him on board with me now at MAG.  Dave’s mind is as sharp as his aim: he came up with MAGIC as the acronym for Massad Ayoob Group Instructor Course.  Damn…I would never have been imaginative enough to think of that.
Dave recently completed the first such pilot course in Wisconsin. You can see what he offers at his website. His schedule is available through the Tactical Anatomy website.
Brother Maglio has also just become the eleventh person in the world (out of some 10,000-plus members) to earn Five-Gun Master ranking in IDPA. See it for yourself here. It pleases me to know that three of the eleven teach for Massad Ayoob Group (David, Jon Strayer, and me), and to know that I have the pleasure of shooting with a fourth in competition, National Champion Robert Vogel, on Team EOTAC.

RETURN TO ALBUQUERQUE
In has been many years since I’ve taught citizens in Albuquerque, New Mexico, though I was there to teach cops in 2006,  and I’m pleased that Anthony Salazar is bringing me back to do a MAG-20 course in that city.   Should have some great guest lecture material there, too, that won’t be available anywhere else on the circuit. ***Originally planned for October 2010, problems with availability of suitable venue have caused us to move this class to March 5-6 in Albuquerque.***

TACTICAL ANATOMY CLASS IN FLORIDA
It’s always satisfying to see your graduates pick up the ball and run with it. Dr. Jim Williams first took training with me many years ago, and since has been inspired to teach both law enforcement and law-abiding armed citizens. His class in Tactical Anatomy has earned rave reviews from police trainers and medical professionals alike. He can show you how to treat gunshot wounds…and he can show you where to inflict them to most effectively stop deadly danger presented by homicidal human offenders. He brings a unique perspective to the topic: he has treated countless gunshot wounds as an emergency room physician…he has been shot and survived, himself…and he has garnered state championships shooting service handguns in IDPA competition.
On Saturday, October 23, 2010, Dr. Williams will be teaching a one-day Tactical Anatomy class for armed citizens in Live Oak, Florida. For information, contact Jim at Tactical Anatomy. If you can’t make it to the course, you would do well to at least buy a copy of Dr. Williams acclaimed textbook “Tactical Anatomy,” available from his website.
On Sunday, October 24, 2010 in the same venue, Dr. Williams will teach Tactical Medicine, a course also open to the law-abiding public. Same contact as immediately above. “Tactical Anatomy” focuses on where to put the bullet to stop the threat; “Tactical Medicine” focuses on first responder care of gunshot wounds inflicted by the perpetrator before some good person put their Tactical Anatomy knowledge to work and stopped the shooting.

MEMPHIS AND OMAHA AREA CLASSES
There are a few places still open in the MAG-40 (40-hour, hands-on shooting as well as classroom work) in the Memphis, Tennessee class sponsored by Tom Givens (August 28-31), and the Omaha, Nebraska area sponsored by Dr. Cliff Leffingwell (August 21-24 in LaVista). Each should have primo guest lecture material, too. For MEMPHIS, TN contact Tom Givens at rangemaster.tom@rangemaster.com. For NEBRASKA call Cliff at (417) 540-5698

CONNECTICUT CLASS
So far, 2010 has been a light year for me teaching in New England, but September 2-5 we’ll be doing a MAG-40 in Connecticut. The host there is Frank Cornwall at Defense Associates. Frank and his able crew do the shooting part the first two days, and I come in to do the lecture part the last two days.

BACK TO LOS ANGELES!
For something like 20 years I taught annually in the greater Los Angeles area. Urban encroachment killed one range after another, including one of my all time favorites, the police range in Long Beach. Eventually, it got to where the few remaining facilities were charging ridiculous rental fees, and that area dropped off my teaching schedule.
Alex Haddox, martial artist and self-defense expert, has signed me up to do a classroom-only MAG-20 in Los Angeles on January 29-30, a weekend. Using hotel conference rooms effectively solves the range availability problem. No shooting…but our intensive “rules of engagement” program for armed citizens using defensive deadly force. MAG-20 classroom is, essentially, the distilled lecture portion of what I used to teach as LFI-I and now teach as MAG-40. For information, contact Alex here.

BLOG AND PODCAST CONNECTIONS
I’m having fun doing a couple of entries a week on my blog at Backwoods Home Magazine, where I’ve been writing the monthly gun column for many years now. My career in the world of the gun took me toward The Dark Side, the use of deadly force in justifiable self-defense by police and law-abiding armed citizens. Backwoods Home has helped me to remind myself and others that there are lots of good things you can do with firearms. I kinda try to channel the spirit of Lucian Cary, the first “gun writer” whose work I ever read as a little boy. Cary was gun editor for my father’s favorite “men’s magazine,” True, and his ability to make an article at once readable and informative to both the serious student of the gun and the ordinary person who owned a firearm or was thinking of buying their first, is what I try to emulate there.  The blog allows me to stay much more current than the many weeks lag in the print magazines afford me, and also gives me an opportunity to talk about politics and other things that I don’t really touch on in my regular magazine articles or in my books. You can get a taste of the magazine at www.backwoodshome.com.  On the left side of their home page they list the blogs; click on mine if you think it might be of interest.
For a couple of years now I’ve also been one-eighth of the ProArms Podcast team. Podcasts are downloadable radio talk shows. Pistol champions Jon and Terri Strayer own the ProArms Gun Shop in Live Oak, Florida and sponsor the podcast; pistol champion Gail Pepin is the PrEditor (producer/editor, and in her case, a phonetically correct title); retired police supervisor and SWAT cop Steve Denney is the host; famed outdoor writer and ace competitive shooter Chris Christian, firearms instructor and Class III authority Herman Gunter III, ex-NYPD cop Mike Larney,  and I round out the commentator crew. You’ll find it all at iTunes, Zune, or at ProArmsPodcast.com, with 57 podcasts available so far. They include gunfight survival stories “from the horse’s mouth” from many BTDT (“been there, done that”) role models. I’m proud to have been a part of bringing it to you.

All for now. Stay safe,
Mas