Reading Gun Magazines In Public?

[losangeles]

I don't care what anybody reads and most people don't care what most people read. There's a mag for all interests, niches.

Maybe there's one exception. Because of people's idea of propriety, the porn mags are bought quickly and put in a brown paper bag and read (or whatever) elsewhere in private, but most subjects nobody cares about.

 

[Clipper]

Reading 'em ain't the problem...

...It's finding gun rags worth the purchase price. Go to the store and look at the gun rag section and what do you see...'1911s & Ammo', and a bunch of clones that seem to only be interested in 1911s and black rifles. Now I enjoy shooting ARs as well as the next guy, and 1911s are not bad pistols, but I just can't work up much enthusiasm for paying for the same stuff month after month. Now that Jeff Cooper is no longer with us, I'll probably only buy '1911s & Ammo' when they review a specific item of personal interest.

It's too bad as I used to have lots of mags to drop off at the doctor & dentist's offices to entertain & educate the unwashed...

 

[frayluisfan]

To Chas and Deanimator

I'm not sure I understand. You are suggesting that I should initiate a verbal exchange with my superiors, knowing that most will not even be able to have a civil conversation about guns, and knowing that they will likely write me off as a nut and decide to get rid of me at the next available opportunity? ANd if I'm not willing to do that, I'll "never be part of the solution"? How is getting into an argument with people who are set in their opinions better than just avoiding the subject?

I think a cost benefit analysis is the key. What are the costs of entering into this discussion? What are the possible benefits? When the costs are probable termination and relocation to a new state, and the benefits are slim to none, I see no point in going there. A wiser man than I once said, "When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, the foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest" and "Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words." (Point being, don't even bother with boneheads who'd rather argue than listen.)

 

[Deanimator]

I'm not sure I understand. You are suggesting that I should initiate a verbal exchange with my superiors, knowing that most will not even be able to have a civil conversation about guns, and knowing that they will likely write me off as a nut and decide to get rid of me at the next available opportunity? ANd if I'm not willing to do that, I'll "never be part of the solution"? How is getting into an argument with people who are set in their opinions better than just avoiding the subject?

I don't care what you do, or to whom you do or don't talk.

The point is that IN TERMS OF GUN RIGHTS, you're INVISIBLE in academia. A point was made that your presence there was good for GUN RIGHTS. That's simply not true.

You're like the Iranian mullah who doesn't deny the Holocaust or want women to be chattel, but never SAYS so.

 

[Web]

Don't you guys know that those magazines are not safe? They could accidentally go off and kill someone.

 

[MBane666]

Dude!

Rather than reading gun magazines in airports, I suggest youwait a month until we get our downloads read, then WATCH SHOOTING GALLERY and COWBOYS on your laptop or iPod.

And BTW, nice name!

Michael Bane

 

[Eleven Mike]

Maybe we should not go off half-cocked on Prof. frayluisfan. Do we even know what he teaches? Maybe it's just not appropriate to go off on gun control when he (she?) is supposed to be teaching particle physics or French drama.

 

[Mannlicher]

I read what I want, with little or no concern as to the opinions of others.
When I worked in cubicle land though, I had a gun shop Remington Calendar posted promenently posted in mine. The company was rabidly anti gun, liberal, and 'diverse'.

 

[BullfrogKen]

I have stated this before, and I think it bears repeating. I have desire to no dig a trench in the culture war at the place where I earn my living.


frayluisfan, I agree with you. Arguing opposing politics with your superiors makes for poor career advancement. I'll let the rest of those here who are bolder than me spill their blood in that war, while I fight more sensible battles elsewhere.

 

[Marshall]

You should be more concerned with where you read your Penthouses.

 

[Eleven Mike]

At risk of sounding dreadfully boorish, I must admit I just spent about an hour reading gun magazines at the local book n' barista. Unlike some who are too full of themselves to own the least inclination to part the leaves of such publications, I admit I sometimes find something of interest therein.

Speaking of full of themselves, the crew at American Handgunner is - is just annoying.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Hide the gun magazine inside of a Playboy.

I've never read gun rags in the venue described by the OP, but have whiled away much time reading them in stores, sometimes even purchasing them. No one has ever said anything.

 

[Stiletto Null]

I was sitting in a pizza shop the other day with my buddy (he just got his C&R, so we were poring over the...SOG? "dealers only" catalog), big-ass catalog spread across the table. We got some quizzical looks, but nobody actually said anything. *shrug*

 

[spankaveli]

the president of the company i work for came by earlier and browsed through my cabelas catalog that's sitting on my desk

 

[Threecard]

I used to ride public transportation to work. What I read usually got me a little extra elbow room.

 

[CannonFodder]

I walked through several layers of airport safety blanket (I am loathe to use the word 'security') with my passport and boarding pass in one hand and the latest issue of American Rifleman in the other.

Nobody seemed to care.