Reading Gun Magazines In Public?

If I'm flying I'll grab a gun mag at the news shop or take along a copy of SWAT.

Never elicited any sort of remark over my choice of reading material, with one exception: a CDNN catalog that showed up at my place of employment during my time in darkest Montgomery County, MD. I thought the receptionist was going to stroke out. I believe she may still be puzzled as to how I escaped arrest that day.

Still, it's good to be back in Texas. Perhaps if I were to wear my bomber jacket with the "NRA Life" patch while reading my notes of Michael Bane's presentation at the "Counterattack '03" conference it might garner a second look but I'd likely have to go to Maryland to really stir it up. But what does one expect when the local NPR affiliate has had softball interviews with both Dr. Lott and Abigail Kohn? I love this place.

Yes I read gun magazines in a lot of public places. If somebody negative wants to confront me about it then I will have to educate them. I don't see a problem here.

I like reading them at work
I've never thought that the people around me pay enough attention to what's going on to notice. And none have said a thing to me.

Yeah, I am serious. NOT.

I just find it funny to come to a gun board and talk about such
stupid stuff as if we care what people see us read.

It sickens me that grown American's have allowed things to get to this point.

But, I guess I have come to expect this sort of questions on a board
where one of the popular topics is if our wives know about our
gun purchases.

I've been creamed, closed thread, on this board for talking about serious issues all because I don't take the "high road".

We've lost. The other side never even fired a shot.

I like to read my Field & Stream mags in class. I like the stares

i did get a funny look from a clerk at Barnes & Noble one time - i was buying Combat Handguns and a bridal magazine (for my daughter)

Lemme see here....i've read gun magazines while standing in the checkout line at the local super market...doctors office...hospitals emergency waiting rooms...the break room at work...sitting on public benches...Nope. Not one nasty or rude comment...no dirty looks...no mommys grabbing the kiddies and fleeing in shear terror...

But i have got a lot of "Used to have one...." "Thinking about..." "What kind of..." questions.

You guys reading gun mags in public, arn't you worried about
offending people?

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Nope. That First Amendment thing that the leftist/socialist types love so much is a two way street...

I don't care what people think of my reading material. It's not porn, or racist stuff.....if Walmart sells it by God I ought to be able to read it in public and I do.

javacodeman said: A little bit of warning next time please. I pulled that site up at work--government work. Hope it didn't have anthing offensive on it. Network guys get uptight about stuff like that.

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I didn't think it was anything shocking. Its nothing more than a gay and lesbian political activist magazine. You might get a from the boys in IT, but, its not porn. Hell, print copies got delivered every week at Hood College, and all the other colleges in the DC/MD area got it too, I'm sure.

I've never worried about it and I've never been bothered

i did get a funny look from a clerk at Barnes & Noble one time - i was buying Combat Handguns and a bridal magazine (for my daughter)

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Yep, somethinglike that happened to me
I teach Special Ed preschool and buy Barney or Maisy books along with my Shotgun News. As often as not, I get the teacher discount on the SGN as well

Read whatever you want, whenever you want.

It's still a free country. I not only read gun mags. but I do it while wearing my NRA Life Member hat. If that doesn't T off the liberals I don't know what will. As of yet I have never had anyone say anything derogatory to me. As a matter of fact I usually hear, "nice hat" if I hear anything.

It's still a free country. I not only read gun mags. but I do it while wearing my NRA Life Member hat. If that doesn't T off the liberals I don't know what will. As of yet I have never had anyone say anything derogatory to me. As a matter of fact I usually hear, "nice hat" if I hear anything.

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You need to wear a "Bush '04" pin on one side, and an M1911A1 pin on the other!

Actually, once right after Columbine, a guy behind the counter at a Starbucks on the way back from the rifle range noted that it must have taken a lot of guts for me to wear my NRA hat "these days". I replied, "Who's going to make me take it off?"

I really like your signature Deanimator.

Leave a Shotgun News for the next guy!

I make it a policy to read when ever I can, and use it as an opening to promote safe sane gun handling to anyone i can.

I also make it a policy to LEAVE old gun mags where they will do some good after I am done with them. For instance at my next Doctor's appt I will be leaving an old shotgun news, and perhaps a Guns & Ammo for the 'next guy.' Who knows, perhaps the next person is a fence setter that might be converted to 'our side'

I've had a lot of success doing this, and only one 'crazy look' and that was from a Hungarian Cardiologist who thinks all americans are crazy anyway.

If we don't promote our sport, who will?

Btw thanks for all the good work on Shooting Gallery, Mr. Bane- I rarely miss an episode.

Barnes & Noble

Oh, also forgot to add I like buying magazines with scary guns on the cover from Barnes & Noble- I get some terrified looks from the liberals there. Keep hoping to start a conversation and convert someone, but they usually look so terrified they can hardly speak.

Wonder what they would do if they realized I was CCW'ing at the time?

Hey, it's not posted, and I'm legal.

I have no problem reading gun mags in public. I've read them at lunch at a nuclear power plant refuel outage. Most of the guards could care less, and a lot of them are shooters.

My only real problem lately is most gun mags are a waste of paper and time. The only ones I've been reading is American Rifleman and the occasional Shotgun News. Gun mags have really declined in recent years.

I especially like reading them in airports, you usually can find other shooters in the crowd. It's kind of like a big fraternity.

I also make it a policy to LEAVE old gun mags where they will do some good after I am done with them. For instance at my next Doctor's appt I will be leaving an old shotgun news, and perhaps a Guns & Ammo for the 'next guy.'

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That's a good idea Ramius, I think I'll start doing that. I'd sure appreciate it instead of having to pick between Vanity Fair, Good Housekeeping, or Golf Illustrated next time I go to a Dr. appointment!
I agree that most of the gun rags are worthless but I still like to look through all the eye candy and smirk at all the new tacticool accessories (of course I tell my gf I read them for the "articles" )

The guy from "Shooting Gallery" is floating around here?

That's a damn fine show, with the exception of the episode where he shot skeet with prison guards for the entire 30min... Good lord that was boring.

And he walks like an ostrich

Read magazines? Hardly, I use them to supply ammunition to my guns.

That said, I do subscribe to American Rifleman, and usually leave it in library magazine racks, doctor's offices, etc.

When I'm not at the university, I work at Barnes and Noble, and I'm known as the "resident gun guy", and other employees refer customers with gun-related (usually looking for specific books or magazines related to guns) to me. I've had several 20 minute conversations with folks, only to have my boss glare at me to get back to work.

The gun section in the magazine rack is kept meticuliously clean by yours truly. Personally, I'm amazed that the store has so many gun-related magazines. They've got two versions of Shotgun News, and probably a dozen or more gun mags. Most of them look pretty worthless (ads and whatnot), but some look interesting. Too bad I'm repairing my finances, and thus have no money to spend, else I'd subscribe.

It's funny you should mention that...

I have two gun magazine stories.

I work at the Olive Garden (mmmm) and I was walking in the dining area when all of a sudden someone taps me on the shoulder and hands me a gun flier leaflet I obtained from the last shipment of x39's. Woops, I guess I dropped it! The guy's face was priceless.

Another time, I was depositing a check at like 11:30 at night in Vons. I deposited it, and I looked over and saw "Guns & Ammo". OOOH! So I grab it and take a seat. Well sooner than I thought, it was 12: closing time! I did it again! The manager gave me weird looks when informing me that it was closing time.

I wonder if I was in TX that these incidents might have been at least more normal and not noteworthy.

I read what I want, where I want. I do enjoy the occasional trip to the hospital; I like to distribute my old gun magazines around the waiting rooms, just so some grass-eating kool-aid drinker has to go around picking them all up! I was reading American Handgunner on the bus one day, and a young woman across from me spoke up and politely asked me, "Aren't those dangerous?". I remembered a line from an old story, possibly by Charles Askins, and replied with a serious face, "Yes ma'am."

I really like your signature Deanimator.

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Thanks!

It really sets the super-hardcore antis off. They obviously hate having the reality of their positions held up to public view.

I do not read them on a plane.
I do not read them on a train.
I do not read them in a bar.
I do not read them in a car.
I do not read them on a boat.
I do not read them in Terre Haute.
I do not read gun magazines....




















because mostly they suck.

Last time I tried to read one in school, they were confiscated for "promoting violence" and "frightening other students". Sheeple.