I've always thought it was pretty dumb for action/adventure writers to start spouting the anti-gun dialectic. John D. McDonald did this in some of his later Travis McGee books because he was encouraged to do so by Cosmopolitan when they serialized the book. All he managed to do was alienate the readers who had made him a celebrity.
Some publisher tried to get Heinlein to include some anti-gun polemic and he refused.
Ian Flemming wrote a story for Playboy and put in some obligatory anti-gun talk- which he continued in an interview he did for the magazine. This is the man who has sold more Walther PPKs and pre-jetfire Beretta .25s than anybody else in history. He hated gun nuts "...and that's what they are, they are nuts..." (He was complaining about all the letters he got about how the .25 acp is not much of a pistol cartridge.}
Flemming was a soldier in something called the SOE or something similar and it's possible that somebody might have showed him how to fire a sten gun at one time. This made him an expert and put him on a much higher plane that the readers whom he condenscended to sell books.
Some publisher tried to get Heinlein to include some anti-gun polemic and he refused.
Ian Flemming wrote a story for Playboy and put in some obligatory anti-gun talk- which he continued in an interview he did for the magazine. This is the man who has sold more Walther PPKs and pre-jetfire Beretta .25s than anybody else in history. He hated gun nuts "...and that's what they are, they are nuts..." (He was complaining about all the letters he got about how the .25 acp is not much of a pistol cartridge.}
Flemming was a soldier in something called the SOE or something similar and it's possible that somebody might have showed him how to fire a sten gun at one time. This made him an expert and put him on a much higher plane that the readers whom he condenscended to sell books.
