Have you noticed that despite the vehement anti-gun sentiments of the mainstream media, there are more gun magazines on the newsstands than ever? That’s true on the Internet, as well.
I’m proud to have a small part in the newest, called The Sear. Go to The Sear and I think you’ll see more than a couple of familiar names.
The Sear is on Facebook, too .
I think editor Anton Runkles has put some darn good gun reading together. But I’m biased, so let me know what YOU think.
Excellent! Thank you for your continued support of the gun community.
In fact, I am just considering another small handgun and the G43 is at the top of my short list at the moment. Got a G42 and G26 so the G43 might just be Goldilocks gun.
When I was stationed in England in 1982 , I noticed that print magazines that had any connection whatsoever to what Britons call the “Shooting Sports” (in a nation where “shooting” is the gerund used to connote “hunting” of small and big game) were always hidden among adult pornographic magazines containing the most lurid and vile content imaginable.
Thereafter, I visited a local registered firearms dealer who welcomed me warmly. When I asked him why I had to resort to hire a gamekeeper guide to help me find a print magazine devoted to guns of any type, including air guns, he replied that retailers were pressured by Her Majesty’s government authorities to collocate (on display racks) firearms and adult pornographic print magazines. Unreal? All too real!
He told me that the government’s intent was to attempt to paint gun owners and shooting sports enthusiasts as strange, unusual and weird characters to be viewed with disdain, disgust and suspicion by the general public.
He also told me that American gun owners should continue to push back firmly without apology whenever gun haters and gun owner haters might attempt to deny the decency and goodness of American gun owners and to destroy our precious Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
He praised the power of the NRA and the tangible reality that American gun owners would likely never fold whenever put under intense pressure by bigoted, prejudiced fools holding positions of power.
Draconian new gun bans were enacted in 1987 and 1997 in England in the wake of two separate mass murders committed by individuals armed with guns. Gun owners who pleaded for “reasonable compromise” were totally torpedoed by the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
The lesson here is that the presence of more and more positive pro-gun content on today’s Internet and in today’s print media are absolutely critical to the protection of the Second Amendment.
Our words backed up by our actions can indeed protect and preserve the RKBA. So, keep advocating, keep reading, keep speaking, keep writing. American gun owners are winners, all the way, and then some! ??
Top notch stuff,
I’ve been able to give it a quick perusal and am very pleased. Looking forward to more and will be sure to add The Sear to my reading list.
Thanks again, always a pleasure to stop by this here blog!
I went to the Sear site after reading your email because I was expecting you to have contributed an article. And there it was!
However, I have to confess that I was side tracked by Anton’s article on Bunny Hunter. After reading that article, I had to go on over to YouTube to see what all the fuss was about.
But don’t worry. About 2 hours later I finally got around to returning to the Sear site and reading your article. And it was a good one! The subject of taking physical disabilities or weakness into account when choosing a handgun was very informative. I found this kind of article to be more relevant to me as I age and have to deal with issues like arthritis.
Good site and good info. I have bookmarked it for further visits.
Great reading, Mas!!! Thanks for the link, I will add it to my reading list.
Excellent site with professionally written articles. Already forwarded to my girls.
I agree, Mas, with all the other positive comments here. Amid much of the noise (both digital and print) that purports to cover the firearms industry, you’re in good company here…Kyle Lamb and Craig Boddington are two people I highly respect. The Sear will be regular reading for me!
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Interesting…I made a similar observation this past weekend. As I traversed the unfamiliar layout of a large chain grocery store in Charlton, (Peoples’ Republic of) Massachusetts, I cam across the magazine aisle and is had not one or two but THREE rows of magazines devoted to firearms, shooting and even hunting. I was shocked, I tell you! I do recall a friend who lives near there saying that once you get west of Worcester the opinions and dictate of Boston lessen…
It did my heart good to see the historic monument plaque (several, in fact) right down the road from where I was staying noting the “Muster Field of the Northside Militia”, right next to the now-restored tavern where said militia met.
God bless America, and the Americans who are caretakers of our history.
Thanks, BTW. That’s *another* blog I have to make the time for!
Very neat – many thanks for the heads-up and the link!
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Curtis,
Thanks for your post. I remember Prime Minister Tony Blair being asked why the UK wanted to outlaw most gun ownership. He didn’t say it was because of mass shootings, but because he and others didn’t like the “gun culture.” That is right in line with what you wrote.
I also read that Europe was mostly OK with gun ownership until The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, when the Czar’s family was executed with guns. This made the other governments in Europe nervous. Can’t let those serfs/peons/pawns have the power of the gun, I guess.
Well stated, as usual, Jaji. I thought what I was seeing locally was just here in my immediate area until I took a recent trip. Nope – everything Mas has said is true – what’s new there? And thanks, Mas, for your continuing efforts to spread the word. You truly “walk the talk” – we should do no less. We can only hope America actually READS these publications and spends less time LISTENING to the know-it-alls in the lamestream media.
Interesting little read. Thanks for the heads-up Mas.
Off-topic:
Texas’s new law permitting open carry recently went into effect. There was an interesting article a few days ago in the newspaper which says that both pro-gun and anti-gun sites who are keeping track of such things are reporting an substantial uptick in the number of commercial stores which are posting the signs to ban open carry. But the article goes on to say that concealed carry advocates — along with an NRA board member — are concerned that establishments who had not previously put up signs barring concealed carry are now putting up signs which ban both open and concealed carry. And I’ve noted that, as well, when I’m out and about: Companies who hadn’t previously had signs are putting them up now and when they do they always put up the signs to ban both open and concealed carry. It appears that we may have an unintended consequence of open carry.
@Dennis: You live in Texas, too; are you seeing the same thing I’m seeing?
On a side issue, the story mentions one owner of a chain of coffeehouses who received multiple complaints from customers that he had not put up the signs prohibiting open carry and saying that they’d not be back unless he did. He’d previously had no signs and hadn’t given much thought to concealed carry one way or the other. After he put up the sign (apparently only banning open carry, not concealed carry, though that’s not clear), he only received one complaint from a gun owner who said he wouldn’t be back. That’s just a single instance and I suppose that a coffeehouse might be more likely to have liberal, anti-gun customers than, say, a bank or a supermarket, but the multiple complaints on one side and a single complaint on the other are interesting nonetheless.
Liberal Dave- Actually, though born, raised, and having spent my working career in Texas, I retired to the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas. I’m not at all surprised at your observations as I expected this reaction from some citizens and business owners. Personally, I never really understood the desire of some to open carry, other than to push a pure, unimpeded, interpretation of the 2nd. amendment. As a uniformed police officer, it was tiresome to always have all eyes on you every moment you were in public. Why anyone would intentionally want that attention is unfathomable to me.
Having said that, I would suspect many concealed carry folks probably ignore the signs. Unless it has changed since I retired, 1st. offense for ignoring the signs resulted in a Criminal Trespass Warning for that establishment only, with an actual Criminal Trespass charge only for a subsequent infraction at the same location. Has that changed with the new laws?
Liberal Dave- As a caveat to my previous response, I would expect there to be a great divide between attitudes in large metro areas and,say, a Canton, Cisco, or even a Tyler or Odessa, with the exception of franchises along the Interstate Highways. Even before concealed carry was legalized, Ranger friends told me that it was not unusual for ranchers and hunters to come into town in rural west Texas, wearing their side arms openly, and being ignored by law enforcement.
It’s all about location, attitudes, and common sense being exercised by all parties, don’t you think?
Sorry for being so late on this. Life sometimes gets complicated.
Dennis, as far as I know you’re mostly right about the criminal trespass part, except that the sign itself is the warning. There shouldn’t need to be a warning other than that. (In “ordinary” criminal trespass, i.e. not involving guns, then LEO’s will not generally arrest unless there is a warning in their presence first and then a return, especially if there is no sign, but a properly placed and unambiguously worded sign justifies an arrest on the first entry. My experience is that most LEO’s are reluctant do do that, however, and will insist on a warning in their presence first.)
As for what you said in your last email about urban vs rural, I suspect that was true in the past, but I’m not sure it would be today. But I entirely agree with your last question.
What a great tip about The Sear! I was surprised to see it’s been around for a while and I hadn’t heard about it. The word (and link) needs spreading on other sites.
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