NRA RESPONSE

[Oldrifle]

Glad they actually listened and made it work for you. It’s nice when organizations pay attention to feedback instead of just forcing the new way on everyone. Enjoy the quarterly print copies!

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

Several different things happening at the same time.

There is the general shift from print anything to digital versions. More people today are consuming info this way, young and old, for better or worse.

Gun mag articles have been dropping in quality for years. NRA mags havent been worth reading for quite awhile, no big loss here.

Good authors like John Taffin Mike Venturino, etc. have died. We're left with people who may have a journalism degree, but little real firearm experience or knowledge.

Manufacturers used to send examples of their products to gun writers to be evaluated and published.

They still do, only today's "authors" are influencers on various digital platforms. More people consume digital content; it only makes sense that manufacturers "advertise" there.

BTW, for those who still think gun rags propped up crap guns because companies paid them to, some of that may have happened.

Reputable authors sent junk guns back to their manufacturer and no article was written. That's why all gun reviews were positive; junk guns got no articles.

I treasure my hard copy books and hope we'll have that option for years. But the mags disappearing dont bother me all that much.

Oh, it's just something else to complain about.

This time next year, there will be a bunch of old coot's on various inter-web forums, griping in pages long threads, about how their landline phones are being "suddenly" and, unjustly taken away from them...Of all the nerve!

I've been a history buff since I was 12 years old, and human history is rife with examples of resistance to change, and staunch opposition to technological advances. But... They have always managed to occur anyway.

 

[el caminero]

Several different things happening at the same time.

There is the general shift from print anything to digital versions. More people today are consuming info this way, young and old, for better or worse.

Gun mag articles have been dropping in quality for years. NRA mags havent been worth reading for quite awhile, no big loss here.

Good authors like John Taffin Mike Venturino, etc. have died. We're left with people who may have a journalism degree, but little real firearm experience or knowledge.

Manufacturers used to send examples of their products to gun writers to be evaluated and published.

They still do, only today's "authors" are influencers on various digital platforms. More people consume digital content; it only makes sense that manufacturers "advertise" there.

BTW, for those who still think gun rags propped up crap guns because companies paid them to, some of that may have happened.

Reputable authors sent junk guns back to their manufacturer and no article was written. That's why all gun reviews were positive; junk guns got no articles.

I treasure my hard copy books and hope we'll have that option for years. But the mags disappearing dont bother me all that much.

luddites; q.v.

 

[Buffalo Red]

I like the gun reviews and gun history in Dillons reloading magazines