Gun magazines

[Big Frank]

American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo Annual (but not the monthly mag) since the late '70s. Lately the G&A Annual has been mostly catalog and hardly any magazine articles. It used to be a lot better.

AR is still my favorite mag. I don't get any other gun mags or any non-gun mags unless I get a free subscription. And Ichiro Nagata's photographs in American Handgunner truly are works of art. I don't know many photographers, of guns or otherwise, by name.

[tombogan03884]

American Rifleman and Shooting Times.

[Trevor]

Criticism of them notwithstanding, I am an unrepentant reader of firearms periodicals.  My favortie remains Gun World.  While I miss the days of Jack Lewis in charge, the current editor Jan Libourel has done a good job keeping the magazine on track with a balance of articles about pistols, rifles, and shotguns.  Libourel has taken heat over the years (especially during his time with the Petersen publications) for supposedly writing puff pieces and "kissing-your-sister" articles, but, unlike many editors in the gun magazine business, Libourel is well-educated and well-read.  He brings intellectual integrity to the pieces he writes as well as the ones he guides into print.  I recommend Gun World to anyone who is looking for a good gun magazine.

Despite the popularity of gun forums on the Internet, the fireams publications have a future because they are a handy package of consumer information.  Yes, they are driven by advertisers, but this aspect is not necessarily a bad thing.  As long as readers keep their perspective on the issue, gun magazines are good infotainment.

[ericire12]

Criticism of them notwithstanding, I am an unrepentant reader of firearms periodicals.  My favortie remains Gun World.  While I miss the days of Jack Lewis in charge, the current editor Jan Libourel has done a good job keeping the magazine on track with a balance of articles about pistols, rifles, and shotguns.  Libourel has taken heat over the years (especially during his time with the Petersen publications) for supposedly writing puff pieces and "kissing-your-sister" articles, but, unlike many editors in the gun magazine business, Libourel is well-educated and well-read.  He brings intellectual integrity to the pieces he writes as well as the ones he guides into print.  I recommend Gun World to anyone who is looking for a good gun magazine.

Despite the popularity of gun forums on the Internet, the fireams publications have a future because they are a handy package of consumer information.  Yes, they are driven by advertisers, but this aspect is not necessarily a bad thing.  As long as readers keep their perspective on the issue, gun magazines are good infotainment.

And you have to have something to read while you are on the can!

[wisconsin]

American Rifleman,    NRA member 

[Sponsor]

[alfsauve]

And you have to have something to read while you are on the can!

Doesn't everybody take their laptop with them there?