Your Favorite NRA Magazine?

[jakemccoy]

My favorite magazine, based on the February 2008 issues, is "America's 1st Freedom". I read an insightful article about the Heller case and about the Second Amendment itself, specifically, the definition of "well regulated militia". If you think you know by looking up the words in a modern dictionary, think again. Join the NRA and subscribe to "1st American Freedom". I'm not making money off this endorsement. I'm just paying due respects to some good writers.

 

[basicblur]

+1 fer America's First Freedom

I'm really not much of a political animal, but my ears do perk up when politicians are trying to screw me and deny/take my rights (which seems to be pretty much all the time). I tend to have political shows on as background noise any time I'm doing stuff inside the house.

Been getting America's First Freedom since I rejoined the NRA 'bout 4 years ago (now a lifer).
NRA radio is pretty darn good also, especially around election time.

 

[GearHead_1]

I'm a shooter/collector and serious reloader but I haven't done any hunting in 25 years. I used to hunt virtually any game Utah had to offer. I hope this doesn't come across poorly but I guess I had what I would call a "streak of morality" hit me. I don't like the way any game tastes, period. I don't need anyone's special recipe, I've tried many and nothing changed my mind. As I thought about it I didn't see the need to kill something simply for the sport of it. I'm confident enough as a target shooter and have hunted enough to know that if I can put it in my sites it will go down. I'm not a vegetarian and it doesn't bother me at all that others feed their family as a hunter. To each their own. Due to its targeted content American Hunter doesn't really turn my crank. American Rifleman is right down my alley. I look forward to receiving it every month. I would like to read America's First Freedom but haven't gotten around to it. I also like to read the FCSA's members magazine Very High Power.

 

[TexasRifleman]

AFF here too. I don't really like "gun magazines".

 

[Neo-Luddite]

The now-defunct "Womens' Outlook"--great mag that wasn't given a fair shake. And yes, I was the subscriber (my wife gets 1st Freedom). I had to change to the 'Hunter' when it folded.

Lots of great photos of women shooting for my kids to look at (girls ages 3 and 5) and a great prop to leave in the break room at work to help win some hearts and minds. Too bad if folded it seemed to be hitting a stride.

 

[herr.baer]

I wish they would bring back the one that was self defense orientated. I can't remember the name of it.

 

[porterdog]

I dunno you guys, I think AFF stinks. It's so rhetorical and strident- I find it a little insulting, generally. I don't need emotionally charged language to help me understand the facts- it's like the pro-gun version of NPR sometimes.

$0.02,
Robert

 

[Ralph]

I receive America's 1st Freedom but actually wish they would take the contents of all three and combine them into one decent magazine instead of three **** magazines.

 

[CBS220]

I think they are three good magazines, actually. I have no qualms with any of them.

However, they do recycle some of their pieces, though, so the same story might be in two or three of the magazines.

I get AFF and AR.

 

[Wheeler44]

My local library gets the American Rifleman. When I was a kid I liked to read the "armed citizen" and the articles about Eddy McGivern and other shooters. I still enjoy reading it.

 

[jakemccoy]

lol... American Hunter is my second favorite. I guess it's not that popular.

 

[bluestarlizzard]

when i was a kid i got the junior magazine Insight, which i really liked. now i get AFF, which is okay. its seems a little spotty some times.
i think the idea of combining the three and adding some more material would be cool. i like reading about stuff i've never done and, due to lack of time or opportunity, will never do, like cowboy action stuff. also i think it would be neat, if they did it kinda like the AKC does their magazine, with lots of diffrent articles from diffrent groups, which rotate monthly and a second magazine put out quarterly which list events only.

 

[Defensory]

AFF is my hands down favorite. I find it quite informative and to the point.

 

[jakemccoy]

Separate magazines are a quick and dirty gauge of where members' interests lie. So, even though one big magazine would be nice, separate magazines have use. According to the rep on the phone, AFF becomes more popular in an election year.

 

[bogie]

It didn't list Gun Digest.

Why?

 

[Robert Hairless]

I used to skip American Rifleman articles that didn't cover my particular interests, then I became curious and began to read them. Now I find myself learning things I never knew.

I don't agree that the tone of America's First Freedom is inappropriate. That magazine is designed to present the NRA view, which it does successfully, and is appropriate for this kind of organization.

It's a far different situation from that of NPR, which should not be slanted and which is supported by the general public not a special interest group such as the NRA.

 

[jakemccoy]

There's the "Other" category.

I didn't know "Gun Digest" is a magazine edited and owned by the NRA. Is it?