End of an Era/Beginning of a New One

In this special 300th episode, GUNS Magazine Editor and host Brent Wheat and guest Roy Huntington make a historic announcement: the print editions of GUNS Magazine and American Handgunner Magazine are ending after 70 years. [More]

The times they are a-changin’.

I did 15 years at GUNS and the last 3 issues of American Handgunner.

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David Codrea is a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. View all posts by admin

4 thoughts on “End of an Era/Beginning of a New One”

John Galt says:

September 13, 2025 at 2:41 pm

what a disappointment.

and now there will be no anonymous gun reads. Log on from your ip address and identify as a 2a supporter……..what could go wrong?
DDS says:

September 14, 2025 at 12:38 am

My daughter, born in 1987, reads newspapers, magazines, and books. My son, born in 1991, gets all of reading material online. It’s a generational thing.

Many print publications are gone altogether. Some have tried to convert to an online format, but I don’t think anyone has yet figured out how to pay for online content with a mix of ad revenue and subscriptions like print did. Print publications sorted out that business model literally a hundred years ago. Will online publications survive long enough to find a way to support themselves? I have my doubts. Many of them are already gone.
Nicholas Olson says:

September 14, 2025 at 9:00 am

Makes me wonder how long ‘Rifle’ will be around. Their magazines have gotten thinner, articles shorter.
Also, makes me wonder how NRA can afford to print 4 magazines for just 3million people.
The grocery store I go to doesn’t even have a magazine rack anymore.

It seems most people my age and younger want to watch videos on everything and not read. Given how bad the nations schools reading scores are, maybe there’s an education component to the print media decline and the video boom?
Jeff in MS says:

September 15, 2025 at 12:26 pm

I don’t read newspapers or magazines online as it is far too constricting. I might continue if I can get them on my Kindle.

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