 Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. And today's book is in the gravest extreme, the role of the firearm in personal protection by our good friend Masada Ayub. This was the first book that he ever put out as far as I know. It was kind of the one that put him on the map. It came out in 1980 is the copyright on this book. So it's an older book. It's been around for almost 40 years now. And I am sure at the time that this was a very important and landmark book. I know that because of something I'll say in a second. But the first thing I'm gonna say is honestly this book is a pass. I don't think it's worth reading and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. I'm a huge, huge Masada Ayub fan. There's another Masada Ayub book that I have reviewed in this kind of series here and a huge Masada Ayub fan. He's on my list to go see. I think his books are excellent but not this one. And the reason is because it's 40 years old and it's just out of date. There's just too many things in here that are either standard practice today which is why I know this was such a groundbreaking book at the time because a lot of this you read and it's kind of like well yeah that's just like shoot at silhouette targets for instance not bullseye right. We all do that. Everybody who's in the tactical world and shooting shoots at silhouette targets. Nobody shoots at bullseye in the tactical world anymore. So there are just or there are things that are just outdated or that I wouldn't recommend. He tells a story of when he was carrying a gun illegally to protect himself because this is 1980 this is before permit laws were really a thing and the few states maybe had him and they were like may issue states you know it was it was a darker time but and he pulled this gun out and someone just kind of flashed it at him and they they went off and he just went about his business right. Today it's like oh my god if you pull your gun out you need to call the police never never never pull your gun out defend your life a whole syrup and go home like nothing happened just don't do that right. You can get to trouble that way because they'll call the police and they'll say hey this guy threatened me with a gun and it happens okay but anyways just too out of date he spends a lot of time talking about revolvers for instance you know everybody again in the tactical world what do we say say buy a striker gun shoot a Glock right. There are some people over here who like those Tupperware guns whatever but my point is and if you want to carry a revolver carry a revolver but I just wouldn't recommend this especially anybody who's new because there's just too much outdated material in here again I think the world in Masada Yub he's a titan in the in the industry especially when it comes to the legal stuff however this book is just out of date it's just too old there's just too many things in it that aren't current and some stuff that's unhelpful and if you go in to read his later books he contradicts some of what he says in here for example like warning shots he talks about warning shots for police officers in this book and he's kind of like okay with it and in his later books he's like no just don't. The warning shots are a bad idea which they are they're a terrible idea so I would recommend you pass in this one I would recommend you grab some of his more current works Dylan Schumacher said no defense do brave deeds and endure