Disappearing Gun Periodicals - An Informal Survey

[BUFF7MM]

Most seem to have way to many ads in them anyway. Only one I actually subscribe to and I thoroughly enjoy is Handloader magazine, to bad it's bimonthly.

 

[240 towles]

at 8.99-9.99 adamn magazine they can have them. I LOVE gun magazines, I enjoy them much better than online. but the price point is garbage, and frankly, I am sck of seeing the same damn AR with slightly different furniture and a different maker somehow warrant it's own article every month. There isno originality. If there is, you can get it for 10.00 an issue, whch is too much in my opinion.

 

[240 towles]

Oh look, a "how to buy an NFA item" article, how original. SGnews has run that about 4 times now. Or "New AR now in 7.36 Magnadoodle". How about "all the Knives you want that cost more than 200 each".

Other possible article titles/ headlines.

"the $100,000 bugout truck"
"airgunning, for the 20 people who do that"
"guns that were forgotten because they were boring"
"Throwing P-Mags at things"
"9mm or 45, who really cares anymore?"
"The minigun you can't buy"
"Why you pay for textured pages"
"Now with more BCM stickers"
"Fred's obsession with couches and sinking ships"
"polymer guns that look and shoot similar"
"Why plastic AR uppers deserve to go in the trash"
"who is paying for WWI helmets to be reproduced?"
"Why a free copy of 'Enemy at the Gates' should not be a deciding factor in buying an overpriced mosin"
"Fear-mongering for sales"
"NFA for profit, now with airplanes"
"How to hobby gunsmith an AK, with only a drill press, lathe, milling machine, and entire machine shop"
"Glock model 54, now with fewer new ideas"
"Survival advice for yuppies"
"scopes that cost more then your car"
"ATN, are YOU rich enough?"
"Money that could be spent on ammo"
"Now costs as much as real magazines"

 

[John from MD]

With youtube, and other online gun reviewers, do we really need firearms periodicals anymore?

You're aren't getting the point. Yes, paper is going away but not at the rate we have seen gun mags disappear. The point is that this may be a form of censorship and we want to find out, 1 if it is and, 2 who is behind it.

 

[EL1227]

at 8.99-9.99 adamn magazine they can have them. I LOVE gun magazines, I enjoy them much better than online. but the price point is garbage, and frankly, I am sck of seeing the same damn AR with slightly different furniture and a different maker somehow warrant it's own article every month. There isno originality. If there is, you can get it for 10.00 an issue, whch is too much in my opinion.

Oh look, a "how to buy an NFA item" article, how original. SGnews has run that about 4 times now. Or "New AR now in 7.36 Magnadoodle". How about "all the Knives you want that cost more than 200 each".

THX for your thoughts 240 towles, but whether you buy them at inflated prices or not isn't what I'm trying to determine.

Print media is dying, that's a given, and the newsstand prices are WAY beyond what you would even pay for a mail order subscription, let alone an electronic one, but people still pay the newsstand price as an impulse buy. Just look at how many copies of other magazines are sold. Stores and their distributors need to cover their overhead too, and it doesn't take more than a few copies of each issue to do that; especially compared to the single copy price of a multi-year subscription.

Until I get more 'field data' on what is being offered and where, buyer preference just another piece of anecdotal information.

 

[DanGuy48]

Wegmans in Frederick and Giant in Frederick (King Fisher location) both had them as of about a week ago. There don't seem to be as many as years past but maybe that's just market demand, or lack of.

 

[EL1227]

Wegmans in Frederick and Giant in Frederick (King Fisher location) both had them as of about a week ago. There don't seem to be as many as years past but maybe that's just market demand, or lack of.

THX DG48 ...

 

[NatBoh]

The Safeway in Canton(Baltimore) has several gun mags, and has since I moved here in 2008. No changes.

 

[iH8DemLibz]

The shelf cleansing took place at Giant 20 years ago too.

After talking to the manager and writing letters, the shelves once again contained the evil magazines.

Write and call the offending stores. Tell them you're just as good as any other citizen that shops there. Scream discrimination.

Shame them. Remind them of Ray Bradbury. Adolf Hitler. And all the rest of them.

 

[montoya32]

Maybe an inquiry needs to be made to find out the reason.

 

[newmuzzleloader]

Not Safeway or Giant but I saw several at Fallston Walmart yesterday. They are on the bottom shelf but still there.

 

[Blacksmith101]

Tractor Supply has a pretty good selection.

 

[hodgepodge]

Harris went out of business a few months ago. They published Guns of the Old West and several other gun magazines. That may be a factor.

But there is a long term plan to make gun ownership rare.

 

[EL1227]

Maybe an inquiry needs to be made to find out the reason.

That's my next step, but I wanted to get a feel for how wide spread it is first.

It's starting to look like individual store decisions, but it's too early to tell for sure. All three grocery stores in Edgewater are totally devoid of gun oriented magazines. I'm going to checkout the chain drug stores in the area tomorrow, then start asking questions of management.

 

[CombatAK]

Martins and Food Lion way up here in Western MD had bunches. So does Wally World. I subscribe to a couple just for required reading in the reading room.

 

[EL1227]

Tractor Supply has a pretty good selection.

So does Bass Pro, but neither carry Tiger Beat,

I'll admit that clientele play a factor in what magazines are carried by a retailer, but even us gun-nutz have to shop for food and get prescriptions filled.

 

[EL1227]

Harris went out of business a few months ago. They published Guns of the Old West and several other gun magazines. That may be a factor.

But there is a long term plan to make gun ownership rare.

I'm still bummed about that ...

 

[Wheaton Hills Sportsman]

I think it is a combination of things, due to our high quality public education fewer people can read a magazine, the groceries stores are owned and run by corporations that must knuckle under to the national socialist visions of the party that brought us Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and the Civil War, and many of our poorly educated people are frightened of the sight of firearms and regard the very word "gun" to be a provocative call for violence. I have had a grown woman tell me she was afraid of my NRA hat and a grown man, in a retirement home, tell me he was frightened of the sight of my cloth shopping bag from Gun Broker. I can see why a grocery store may not want to have the socialists for a miserable society protesting there over gun magazines, adult magazines, or magazines of any kind.

 

[zoostation]

Giant up here in Hazzard has about a half dozen different ones up on the shelves.

 

[EL1227]

I think it is a combination of things, due to our high quality public education fewer people can read a magazine, the groceries stores are owned and run by corporations that must knuckle under to the national socialist visions of the party that brought us Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan and the Civil War, and many of our poorly educated people are frightened of the sight of firearms and regard the very word "gun" to be a provocative call for violence. I have had a grown woman tell me she was afraid of my NRA hat and a grown man, in a retirement home, tell me he was frightened of the sight of my cloth shopping bag from Gun Broker. I can see why a grocery store may not want to have the socialists for a miserable society protesting there over gun magazines, adult magazines, or magazines of any kind.

"That there is funny, I don't care who you are." - Larry the Cable Guy

Keep it up ... as a matter of fact, go full commando, then tell them your are desensitizing and deprogramming them. And if the balk at that, ask if they can recall when their brainwashing started ?

As I've mentioned before, I wear 2A and gun manufacturer logo'ed togs all of the time ... and I actually get compliments. Sometimes ya just gotta say