Have you noticed that gun magazines aren't sold in most, if not all airports?

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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that they dont seem to sell firearm related magazines in airports? i fly at least 100 flights per year, and while I dont look in every airport, I do often look for something to read on a lay over or if a flight is delayed. They have plenty of fishing and outdoor magazines, and of course all the magazine covers showing half naked (or completely naked) women they can fit on the shelves, but I dont fish, and looking at half naked women in a magazine like Stuff or maxim or playboy just doesnt have the appeal it once did...is it to much to ask to be able to pick up a gun magazine?

Yes I know I could get a subscription, but this is more a question of why they dont bother selling gun magazines...I mean they sale cowboy, sailing, and yachting magazines, I am sure gun magazines would .ake at least as many sales as one of those. I was thinking that maybe they feel its in poor taste, but I cant imagine they feel gun magazines are in poor taste considering they carry playboy.
 
First off, Playboy is not in bad taste!!:)
I fly all the time and I am almost positive you can pick up gun magazines in Hartsfield Jackson and Bush. At least that is where I think I have picked them up in the past.
 
but this is more a question of why they dont bother selling gun magazines
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Apparently you need to fly through Sea-Tac. Here is someone commenting he finds it weird such magazines are sold at an airport, which a picture of half a dozen different titles:
http://www.civicactions.com/node/255

But as far as why you don't see them everywhere, perhaps some don't do it to keep up the illusion of safety and security. Pictures of guns may get people's minds racing. But, I doubt this has much impact.

I would guess the more convincing reason is that, they probably don't sell as well.

The plethora of girly mags is obvious. Male travellers are buying magazines that they can't buy when their wife is around.

Yachting and Sailing magazines would appeal to the weary traveller who yearns for the open seas or the salesman who knows that if he can close a few more big sales, he'll soon be able to afford his boat.

Business are less concerned about bad taste and more concerned about profit. If you asked the owner of the newstand which makes more money, Playboy or Guns & Ammo, I'd bet he'd tell you the former.
 
In January I flew home to Baltimore from Dallas/Fort Worth and bought me the latest edition of Guns and Ammo right before boarding.


Of course.....that was in Texas. :evil:
 
On a similar note i was waiting in the doctors office today (the actual office not the lounge) and much to my surprise on top of a stack of magazines was a gun magazine. Needless to say it came in handy when i had to wait 15-20 minutes for him to make an appearance:)
 
i see lots of them, and usually pick up a good selection for reading on the plane. Nothing like having people stare at you while you are reading "Combat Handguns"
 
It totally depends on the airport and I think even more so the state that it is located in. Gun friendly states are much more likely to carry them, at least in the southwest.
 
The USAirways terminal at New York Laguardia has an excellent selection of gun magazines. Look in the news stand inside security near the security checkpoint.
 
The Walmart in Carbondale Illinois and Normal Illinois carry Guns and Ammo.

I think it really depends on the demographics of the surrounding area and where the flights most likely came from.
 
No PC in some places and not just airports. Wal-Mart doesn't carry them like they once did, or many book stores.
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Huh, I've never had trouble finding gun rags in Wal-Mart or in airports.

Not every airport I've been in has them, but certainly quite a few of them do. I also had no trouble buying gun rags at train stations in Spain, and those had some really cool Euro-gear in them.

I've been on a lot of flights, and never had anyone complain about me reading gun rags during the flight.

I'd imagine it's more a sales issue than a P.C. issue. If gun rags don't sell well at that location, then they won't carry them. No need to find an anti lurking behind every rock.

-MV
 
Im through houston (iah) and DFW all the time, I'll take a look next time I am there. In houston I usually go browsing through all the shops and dont get anything to read which is why I might have missed them.

As far as the yachting and sailing, I just assumed that there are far more hunters and shooters flying than yachtsman and sailors, so in my mind I figured the gun magazines would sell better...maybe not?
 
From that link
I took this photo in a newstand at Sea-Tac on my way back to NY last week. I wonder what would have happened if I had purchased all of these titles and was reading them while waiting to board the plane?

Doesn't it seem kind of strange, maybe even disturbing, that guns like the one on the cover of "Guns and Weapons", first, even exist; second are on the cover of a magazine; third, a magazine exists to carry such a picture; and forth, that magazine is sold in an airport newstand?

Regardless of the right to bare arms (for the purpose of a well regulated militia) or the right to freedom od speech and freedom of the press, I can still find big guns on the cover of magazines and the sale of those magazines in airports where firearms are strictly prohibited (regardless of whether or not you are a member of well regulated militia, I might add) to be strange and disturbing.
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That made my head hurt. I guess we shouldn't sell magazines about yachts, automobiles, fine cigars and spirits, and a huge variety of things because they aren't allowed in airports. :rolleyes: A mother might find a cigar magazine disturbing because it might promote evil air pollution.
 
I ALWAYS take a Guns-N-Ammo or Combat Handguns or Shotgun News. Have gotten some raised eyebrows from the TSA folks every now and then.

I got some woman ranting at me once about "How can you read such EEEEVIL material? All about killing and such...No one but the Police & Army should have a gun."

I replied "So, lady, are you saying that if some 250+Lb bad guy broke into your home with robbery, rape, and murder in mind, you would rather fist-fight said miscreant?"

She stormed away without another word to me.
 
The largest selection of gun related magazines that I have ever seen in one place is in Concourse C (all Comair flights) at the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Int'l Airport. I make a point to buy at least 2 any time I'm there, since selection is usually based on sales. That is probably the better explanation for most airports (limited space/demand) rather than some antigun conspiracy.

I commonly read SWAT or other gun mags with pictures of EBRs when I fly. I've never had a remark or reaction from anyone.


PDX has the best overall book store (Powell's), hands down.
 
not just airports ....

Both the supermarkets by my house do not sell any type of gun magazines. Neither does the local CVS drugstore. I have to go find them in 7-11 stores .... :scrutiny:
 
I am told that soldier of fortune is much better as a paranoia stimulent is this true?
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I had a teacher who would dress up in camouflage pants and read a copy of soldier of fortune whenever he went on an airplane. He insisted that the pants weren't only comfortable, but also helped him get more space since people tended to not want to sit too close to him.
 
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