They intentionally missed the point and misrepresented events, as is usual for the far left. This wasn’t “Big Guns” exerting pressure comparable to Big Tobacco or some other industry the far left chose to demonize. It was readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, and in many cases actually cancelling. The left has no standards, and they don’t understand those of us who do. The original FR thread on the terrible editorial shows us cancelling our subscriptions, not Ruger, Remington, and Glock applying pressure - if the gun manufacturers had been, we would have cheered them (and there would have been nothing wrong with a private, for-profit company protecting our God-given human right to keep and bear arms).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3086986/posts
In other words -- as usual -- the left lied.
If you get a leftist publication, and it is dated, you would be wise to check your calendar.