\u2026not because I have articles and columns in them, but because these will be the collectible last print issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both are planned to continue as online publications, at www.gunsmagazine.com<\/a> and www.americanhandgunner.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guns <\/em>debuted in 1955 as America\u2019s first dedicated newsstand gun magazine. American Handgunner <\/em>hit the stands in 1976 as the first gun magazine devoted entirely to pistols and revolvers. I\u2019ve written for both since the Seventies. They were widely considered the best of their kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Print magazines are rapidly disappearing along with daily newspapers. Magazine racks are shrinking or disappearing entirely from retail stores. It\u2019s a sad thing for us Boomers to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2026not because I have articles and columns in them, but because these will be the collectible last print issues. Both are planned to continue as online publications, at www.gunsmagazine.com and www.americanhandgunner.com.\u00a0 Guns debuted in 1955 as America\u2019s first dedicated newsstand gun magazine. American Handgunner hit the stands in 1976 as the first gun magazine devoted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}