A reliable source has informed me that the NRA is ending publication of Shooting Illustrated and America’s First Freedom. I have not found a link for this, and when I checked the NRA website earlier today, I still had a choice of these magazines with my membership.
The same source also informs me that the NRA is switching to quarterly print publication for American Rifleman and American Hunter. Again, I have no link for this. I’ve checked the NRA’s website and done a lazy Google search. But this is not a person prone to misinformation or falsehood, so I trust them implicitly. If I find a link, I will update here.
I think this is just another example of what Roy Huntington is talking about: the gun, ammo, and gun accessory manufacturers are dropping print advertising in favor of the Internet, and the print market just isn’t sustainable any longer. Of course, nobody’s considered what’s going to happen when the big companies that effectively control the Internet start hating guns again.
Edited to add: link from Bearing Arms, dated October 30th. It doesn’t name the magazines, but my source tells me they are named in the linked Cam and Company interview.
Link from News2A, also dated October 30th.
On a happier note, “Teen Vogue” has snuffed it. More or less.
“Teen Vogue”, the print publication, actually ceased publishing in 2017, but it continued on as a website under the Condé Nast brand until yesterday. Condé Nast is folding the website into the regular “Vogue” website. I’ve seen one report that says 75% of TV’s staff was fired, “including its entire politics team”.
I would be happier about this if they had snuffed regular ‘Vogue”, too, but you take your victories where you find them.
And, finally, Gannett announced today that they are changing the name of the company. The new name? USA Today Company.
Not too long ago, the American Rifleman was 10 times a year in a cost saving move that thankfully ended.
The economic basis for 4 magazines from the NRA has always been a mystery.
I subscribe to Rifleman and read articles from Shooting Illustrated online.
I get American Rifleman, because I always get American Rifleman. That was the magazine. When I first joined the NRA, American Rifleman was the ONLY magazine.
My mother got American Hunter when she was a member, so she could pass it along to her grandkids.
Someone I know gets Shooting Illustrated and someone else I know gets America’s First Freedom, so we had the field covered.