Posted on 11/03/2013 5:56:29 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama
You know how one You Tube leads to another? I found this while viewing your link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb8mU_g_f2w
I grew up with American Rifleman as my Dad showed me the many pleasures and freedoms that were associated with the 1950's and 1960s NRA which was not deemed an anarchist organization by the government of the day.
Did you know that the orange “Guns and Ammo” on the cover glows in a black light?
I expect Metcalf will resign and apologize within a week.
I quit taking G&A’s political page seriously years ago when the author of an article went into a diatribe on citizenship.
I knew he had been reading STARSHIP TROOPERS as all his political ideas were exactly like the book.
Back in 1968, G&A was called a “noisy” magazine, by the anti-gun press, for it’s then pro-gun slants.
The good things about the magazine is it does play to the “I want that” desires of the public, which is their real purpose.
A fine example is the AR-15. In the 1960s and early 70s you could not give one away(except to me).
“What good is it?”
“Will it knock down a deer?”
“A Mattel toy!”
Then G&A started a series by Mel Tappan on SURVIVAL GUNS, and suddenly everyone and his dog wanted one.
Of course, Jimmy Carter and his failed Iran policy didn’t help any, and when Americans also discovered the MAD (Mutually assured destruction) nuke policy meant the public was really on their own for survival.
I quit that rag many years ago. They have always been a “joe biden” kind of gun rights business.
Well, actually, I didn’t.
Uh—should I care?
Regulation IS infringement. Look up the definitions. How can you regulate something without infringing on its free exercise? The very nature of a regulation is an infringement.
This editor is dabbling in word games, and coming out much the worse for his effort.
Folks in the ammunition and firearms industry have provided the necessary help for the enemies of freedom to accomplish things that they never could have accomplished on their own.
How many patriots know that the 1968 Gun Control Act was initiated, drafted and supported by the American firearms industry (SAAMI) as a mis-guided protectionist scheme?
How many patriots know that the 1994 Assault Weapons and Extended Magazine bans were initiated and supported by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF & SAAMI)? How could anybody with a even a little knowledge of firearms believe that Senator Feinstein and her staff drafted the AWB? It was far too detailed and selective for anyone outside of the industry to daft.
The citizens seemed to miss the obvious that Ruger’s (long time SAAMI member) Mini-14 was not an “Assault Rifle” while Colt’s (not a SAAMI member at the time) AR-15 was, even though the two rifles functioned identically. It was a mis-guided protectionist scheme to protect the industry from the perceived economic danger imposed by the evil looking SKS’s and semi-auto clones of AK-47’s, plain and simply.
I saw, read and studied the draft of the AWB & EMB in 1989 (!!) when I worked at Winchester. It was being circulated within the ammunition and firearms industry by Bob Delfay of SAAMI to gain support for the measures prior to introduction in the Senate by Feinstein. It took another 5 years to complete, legislate and implement the bans.
Welcome aboard, albeit quite late.
I only ever read G&A because of Col. Cooper’s column on the back page. Since his death, I doubt I have bought more than two issues off the newsstand. I have subscribed to “Shooting Times,” though I don’t have a current subscription.
I was alarmed when “Shooting Times” and “Guns & Ammo” were teken under the same ownership, and it looks like I, and everyone else who was alarmed, was correct.
I won’t buy another copy of either magazine as long as Metcalf is on the staff of either one, that’s for sure.
Most excellent!!
Thank you for sharing!!
It's against the law to indiscriminately shoot people, too.
However, in the case of the theater, your mouth isn't duct-taped shut on entrance to the theater (prior restraint).
Looks like a S&W Sigma. Probably a 9mm.
P.S. If it is a Sigma, it’s a POS. And I’d be embarassed to carry it.
Metcalf needs to be Zumboed.
I used to like his handgun hunting articles many years ago. Typical outdoor writer getting a little too full of himself. He’s spent too much time on the payroll.
We have jerks like this at my local gun club. We call them “Golfer’s with Guns”.
Thanks for that link. This totally explains it now.
Metcalf is a quisling.
Yeah, I fired one some years a go. It was a poor imitation of a Glock.
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