Survival Arts

Boston's Gun Bible, from Javelin Press

As an advocate not only of the principle of RKBA (Right to Keep and Bear Arms), but an active proponent of actually using that right actively, I'm often asked by novice gun owner friends how to start along the path of learning.

Helping those friends usually entails lots of email back-and-forth, assistance in the way of gun shopping trips, and usually arranging a panoply of firearms-related range and martial arts training.

Most of my friends are libertarians, and as such are a bookish lot. They actually read huge tomes and selectively absorb worldview. It's not atypical for a conversation between a couple of them to result in one or both walking away with a small armful of books, the subtext being "read this and we'll have a shared base from which to talk further".

When talking guns with friends, I typically engage in the same behavior. I never fully accepted Murray Rothbard's personal admonition to me never to lend out my books, though I have become very much more careful in the way I engage in the proliferation of meme packages I've acquired through purchase. One of those packages I share out carefully is Boston's Gun Bible, which I can announce with pleasure is out in a newly revised and expanded edition.

Well, the "newly" part is relative to my ignorance of the fact that the perfectly servicable version I bought 2 years ago was again revised in April 2002. I was alerted to this fact by the author, Boston T. Party:

> >You mean a revised edition of the 2002 revision?
>
> What? Mine says "Expanded Edition: August, 2000". I didn't
> know about the 2002 edition. Does that include coverage of training at Front
> Sight too, which is not mentioned in the edition I have?

Ah, you have the 2000 edition, not the revised BGB which came in April this
year. 10 new chapters and 200+ new pages. Much better book!

I've ordered mine, and look forward to reviewing it extensively when it arrives.

Posted by Russell Whitaker at November 6, 2002 02:01 PM | TrackBack