Mad Magyar
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You’ve seen the familiar post, “The worst POS I’ve ever owned”. No explanation is ever given. I imagine some have good intentions, however, are they genuine? Who are these people? With anonymity & nom de plumes on the Internet, one can see how easy it is to manipulate gun views in either direction. What brought this home for me was an interesting post & reply recently on a forum. The contributor mentioned how he was constantly experiencing FTF’s in an expensive pistol and was close to using the “P” word. It seems the service dept. of this mfgr was slow in reacting. Almost immediately, two posts later, a gun rep from this mfgr was telling how they would take care & remediate the matter. By the moniker of the sender, you would have thought it was your average pistolero! I almost fell off my chair! “They’re Here!” Why is it that some pistols are mentioned more frequently than others and are constantly being christened as the BEST in such & such category? Have you noticed when someone complains of malfunctions on a Sig, Kahr, Kimber, CZ, and a few others that all the apologists, perhaps publicists, come out & give every damn excuse in the book, most common the “break-in”, or, “Oh, just one bad mag or extractor”, etc. However, when other pistols have problems, the POS stuff comes out: “You get what you pay for”, ad nauseam. And, certain guns are always listed in the POS categories…No, they aren’t all bad, but we are constantly being reminded….Are we being manipulated by the gun industry propagandists? Am I being paranoid?
Let me say that it makes good business sense to have someone monitor the gun forums not only seeing “what’s what”, but possibly to influence public opinion by promoting/glorifying a certain pistol and denigrating the others….I monitor about six gun forums using different monikers, and there is one in particular where the vast majority of the moderators are gun writers for the popular gun magazines. If you mention anything negative about a certain pistol/ammo that was reviewed, glowing of course, by any of them; they come down on you like a “sledge-hammer”. Of course, being paid by mfgr’s for the review & ads, one must realize who’s buttering their bread. BTW, I consider gun writers an extension of the gun/ammo industry. What say you to all this?
Let me say that it makes good business sense to have someone monitor the gun forums not only seeing “what’s what”, but possibly to influence public opinion by promoting/glorifying a certain pistol and denigrating the others….I monitor about six gun forums using different monikers, and there is one in particular where the vast majority of the moderators are gun writers for the popular gun magazines. If you mention anything negative about a certain pistol/ammo that was reviewed, glowing of course, by any of them; they come down on you like a “sledge-hammer”. Of course, being paid by mfgr’s for the review & ads, one must realize who’s buttering their bread. BTW, I consider gun writers an extension of the gun/ammo industry. What say you to all this?