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Ayoob served twenty years as chair of the firearms committee for the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (including several years on ASLET’s ethics committee) and four on the advisory board of the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. He has taught at regional, national and international seminars for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, and has taught the investigation of justifiable homicides at venues ranging from the DEA Academy in Quantico to the International Homicide Investigators Seminars. Mas also served two years as co-vice chair of the forensic evidence committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, one of the very few non-attorneys to ever hold such a position with that organization.

For most of his adult life, Mas has worked full time studying violent encounters, teaching how to survive them, and writing about same. He founded Lethal Force Institute (PO Box 122, Concord, NH 03302, (www.ayoob.com) in 1981. Part-time, he has been testifying as an expert witness since 1979, and has spent 33 years as a part-time, fully sworn law enforcement officer, most of that time as a supervisor with command authority over full-time personnel. At this writing he is handgun editor of Guns magazine, law enforcement editor of American Handgunner, and associate editor of Combat Handguns and Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement. The first five-gun Master in IDPA, Ayoob presently holds the New Hampshire State, Florida State, New England Regional and Florida/Georgia Regional Champion titles with the stock service revolver.