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From the Publisher (Guns & Ammo opening letter, Jan 2014)
Guns & Ammo | January 2014 | Chris Agnes

Posted on 12/08/2013 4:50:52 PM PST by mykroar

Dear Reader,

Dynamic changes for "Guns & Ammo" have been in development for many preceding months and were to first appear in the March issue. Given recent events, we have decided to move forward and implement these changes effective immediately.

The February issue will mark the introduction of Eric R. Poole as the new editor of "Guns & Ammo" magazine. Eric has previously written features with "Guns & Ammo" on new products and has contributed to the "Modern Sporting Rifles" column every other month. He's known for his passionate advocacy of Second Amendment rights and continues to be a lifelong student of all things related to firearms. Most recently, you may recognize him for having been the editor-in-chief of special interest publications produced by "Guns & Ammo," including "Book of the AR-15," "SNIPER," "Surplus Firearms," "Book of the AK47," "TRIGGER" and many others since 2009.

Eric Poole is himself a long-time reader of "Guns & Ammo" and brings with him a fresh vision for the magazine and digital products. In the coming months he will introduce new contributors carrying credible backgrounds, thoughtful content and a new style. He is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, a Marine combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, a smallbore and highpower rifle competitor, a gun collector, as well as a marksmanship instructor. During his formative years, he worked for four years at the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. He views the opportunity to lead "Guns & Ammo" as the ultimate achievement in his shooting career, which began decades ago with his father, himself a retired police officer and gun enthusiast.

Every reader is extremely important to "Guns & Ammo" magazine. I ask you personally to consider maintaining your support of "Guns & Ammo" magazine and give Eric Poole the opportunity to continue the prominence that "Guns & Ammo" has had in promoting all types of firearms, firearms sports and firearms rights since it was first published in 1958.

Chris Agnes, Publisher


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amendment; ammo; catoutofbag; freshvisionof2a; freshvisionsnort; guns; horseoutofbarn; poole

1 posted on 12/08/2013 4:50:52 PM PST by mykroar
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To: mykroar

They must have lost a lot of subscribers when they went full Sarah Brady.


2 posted on 12/08/2013 4:51:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (That was sarcasm, moron.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good, let them keep losing readers now that we know how the ownership really feels.


3 posted on 12/08/2013 4:55:02 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: mykroar

I received my $15 check from them maybe a week ago.

I was surprised that I still got my January issue. After they took the action they did, I almost regret cancelling but I guess all those cancellations may have been what made them change.


4 posted on 12/08/2013 4:55:32 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum


5 posted on 12/08/2013 4:56:35 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: mykroar

Dear Chris,

As a retired journalist, and a writer in other genre, I will wait till the magazine issues come forth, and divine ‘the slant’, then judge accordingly. I hope to be pleasantly surprised.


6 posted on 12/08/2013 4:56:44 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: mykroar

One thing which did surprise me is the check came from some outfit I had never heard of in New York City.


7 posted on 12/08/2013 4:59:04 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: mykroar

Dynamic changes for “Guns & Ammo” have been in development for many preceding months and were to first appear in the March issue
***Bowlsheet. They’re in full retreat mode. They didn’t plan this. They blew it. Full and simple.


8 posted on 12/08/2013 5:04:10 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They must have lost a lot of subscribers when they went full Sarah Brady.

They lost me once I read that column.

9 posted on 12/08/2013 7:06:12 PM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m one they lost. Canceled as soon as I read the article.


10 posted on 12/08/2013 7:33:07 PM PST by RetiredNavy ("Only accurate firearms are interesting")
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To: mykroar

I don’t read that mag. What happened?


11 posted on 12/08/2013 7:36:20 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: mykroar

Good lesson for the “brown rifle” Fudds to learn before they throw “black rifle” people under the bus again.

The people they are trying to impress are NOT their friends.


12 posted on 12/08/2013 7:42:11 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: Dr. Sivana
Editor Don Metcalf wrote this anti-civil-rights foolishness.
13 posted on 12/08/2013 7:45:24 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Kevmo

Like Cheaper than Dirt sheeting themselves after Sandyhook and stopping gun sales, like a lot of people I stopped CTD purchases.
And we gun owners have memories like elefunks.


14 posted on 12/08/2013 8:26:59 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Still Thinking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Hindery

This is who now owns Guns & Ammo and about 17 other sporting magazines and cable channels about guns...they are planning to gradually change the narrative about "common sense gun control" through this purchase...they need to be put out of business and exposed for what they are.... incremental propagandists with an anti-gun message.
15 posted on 12/08/2013 10:23:40 PM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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