IMHO Dick was being used by Leo Hindery, Jr. Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners (guns and ammo, shooting times etc) as a feeler to see how the shooting community would take to modifying their stance on gun control
Hindery is an Obama bundler and an anti gun POS who has caused me not to renew my subscriptions to intermedia gun mags.
Good to know.
I think you are absolutely correct.
Metcalf supposedly talked about retirement prior to the whole debacle and I feel that he was a sacrificial goat.
Hindery is a rabid dem and a definite obama-lover and has no love for guns, in spite of his media holdings.
He gambled...he lost.
This time.
I predict that the bloodletting at the magazine is not over.
I care not, I cancelled my subscription back in November.
I enjoyed the section on old guns, but I was also getting tired of Boddington telling me that unless I spent $3000.00+ on a rifle, I had no hopes of killing a deer.
Gun snobbery sucks and they are good at it.