Massad F. Ayoob (born 20 July 1948) is an American firearms and self-defense instructor. He has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense to both law enforcement officers and private citizens since 1974. He was the director of the Lethal Force Institute in Concord, New Hampshire from 1981 to 2009, and now operates his own company. Ayoob has appeared as an expert witness in several trials. He has served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and holds the rank of Captain in the Grantham, New Hampshire police department.
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Career
Ayoob has authored several books and more than 1,000 articles on firearms, combat techniques, self-defense, and legal issues, and has served in an editorial capacity for Guns Magazine, American Handgunner, Gun Week, Guns & Ammo and Combat Handguns. Since 1995, he has written self-defense and firearms related articles for Backwoods Home Magazine. He also has a featured segment on the television show Personal Defense TV, which is broadcast on the Sportsman Channel in the US.
While Ayoob has been in the courtroom as a testifying police officer, expert witness, and police prosecutor, he is not an attorney; he is, however, a former Vice Chairman of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and is believed to be the only non-attorney ever to hold this position. His course for attorneys, titled "The Management of the Lethal Force/Deadly Weapons Case", was, according to Jeffrey Weiner: "the best course for everything you need to know but are never taught in law school."
Ayoob has also designed two tactical knives; in 1998 a sheath knife for Master of Defense (currently BLACKHAWK!), and in 2001 a folding knife for Spyderco.
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Biography
Ayoob is of Arab descent. His grandparents immigrated to America in the latter part of the 19th century.
Publications
Books
Videos
Podcasts
Ayoob hosts the ProArms Podcast.
See also
- Jeff Cooper
References
External links
- Lethal Force Institute
- Massad Ayoob Group
- Backwoods Home Magazine -- columns by Massad Ayoob
- An Interview with a Lethal Man
- Personal Defense TV Season V
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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