Massad Ayoob is an author at The Armory Life since the beginning. But, his work here is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his experience with firearms, managing violent encounters and writing about both.
Ayoob has been handgun editor of Guns magazine and law enforcement columnist for American Handgunner since the 1970s. He has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals. Massad Ayoob is the author of some twenty books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including In the Gravest Extreme and Deadly Force, widely considered to be authoritative texts on the topic of the use of lethal force.
The winner of the Outstanding American Handgunner of the Year Award in 1998, Massad Ayoob won several state and regional handgun shooting championships. Ayoob was the first person to earn the title of Five Gun Master in the International Defensive Pistol Association.
He served 19 years as chair of the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and twenty years as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. In addition to teaching for those groups, he has also taught for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Homicide Investigators seminars.
Massad Ayoob received judicial recognition as an expert witness for the courts in weapons and shooting cases since 1979. Ayoob served as a fully sworn and empowered, part time police officer for 43 years, mostly at supervisor rank.
Ayoob founded the Lethal Force Institute (LFI) in 1981 and served as its director until 2009. Ayoob now offers training through Massad Ayoob Group. He has appeared on CLE-TV delivering continuing legal education for attorneys, through the American Law Institute and American Bar Association, and has been retained to train attorneys to handle deadly force cases through the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network.
Ayoob served for two years as co-vice chair of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He also appeared in each episode of Personal Defense TV (Sportsman’s Channel).
