Now I know what I want the NRA to spend my dues on...

[Oro]

I want them to take my dues money and BUY A FRACKIN' DICTIONARY for the folks at American Rifleman. I got the new issue (June) today and the cover has a photo of a Benelli Vinci calling it a - wait for it - "Masterpiece." Not in the article, mind you, but on the COVER of the magazine. Maybe they think that's clever, like a play on "daVinci" - but unfortunately it's just lame.

New and innovative? um, OK, it borrows some ideas from modern rifles, Ok. Brilliant and artistic? "Masterpiece? Uh, no, it's ugly as sin. It's a semi-auto black plastic rifle with a 12 gauge chamber. Ok, good for the field, maybe a truly great field gun, but "masterpiece"?

Geez - how will the liberal left ever listen to the NRA about gun policy when they can't trust them to use the English language correctly?

Apparently those that don't take advertising or support money from Benelli don't have as high an opinion:

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/04/02/benelli-vinci-shotgun/

I was so disappointed with the cover story, I tossed the magazine aside for now and started reading the current issue of The Atlantic. Now that's sad for a gun fan...

 

[jeffsenpai]

I enjoyed the article on Herb Parsons and the "Guns of D-Day"

 

[akodo]

madogre was heaping praise on the vinci, and as far as I know he gets no advertising or support money.

he does work at a gunshop, to be fair, but then they don't ONLY sell benelli

 

[Oro]

I enjoyed the article on Herb Parsons and the "Guns of D-Day"

Probably I will enjoy that tomorrow night.

PS - I'm not that outraged, FYI, just trying to make an ironic, semi-humorous post before us left coasties go to bed. I really enjoy new issues of AR. Night all!

 

[maulme]

Those guys at American Rifleman never met a gun they didn’t like and they’re too cozy with the manufactures. But you can still glean some useful info from their reviews. And the pictures are pretty.

Gun Tests is much better for reviews. And they’re not afraid to give a gun an “F”, and even publish some dissenting comments on their reviews.

 

[Rockwell1]

I liked the D-Day article as well.
Has anyone ever bought the Mauser they keep advertising on the front page?

 

[kyo]

I like the defense stories

 

[sarduy]

it is a masterpiece

 

[JohnBT]

"I was so disappointed with the cover story, I tossed the magazine aside"

It's just a magazine. And it's free.

John

 

[CajunBass]

The gun is called a "Vinci." As in Leonardo da Vinci. Great artist, sculptor, inventor.

Get it. Painter...sculptor...."masterpiece." It's a tie-in.

Like "Clip" or "magazine" it's not worth getting all worked up over.

 

[divemedic]

I think the OP needs a dictionary. Look at number 3, below:

mas⋅ter⋅piece
  /ˈmæstərˌpis, ˈmɑstər-/ [mas-ter-pees, mah-ster-]
–noun
1. a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
2. anything done with masterly skill: a masterpiece of improvisation.
3. a consummate example of skill or excellence of any kind: The chef's cake was a masterpiece.
4. a piece made by a person aspiring to the rank of master in a guild or other craft organization as a proof of competence.

 

[Straight Shooter]

I got a kick out of "The Armed Citizen" article where a guy witnessed a robber wearing a ski mask at a Burger King. The robber was pointing his gun at everyone so the armed citizen decided to tell the robber to lower his gun and stop pointing it at people. The armed citizen was shot several times. :banghead:

He did however return fire, killing the robber.

Where did this guy think he was, at the range???