Older Gun Magazines (Periodicals)

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I have American Rifleman back 30 years and Guns & Ammo, Shooting Times, and American Handgunner issues more current. I have given away a lot of them here in the past and need to get rid of more.

These are free and in good condition. All I ask is postage. I can get 4 or 5 years (depending on the magazine) in one of the $25.00 flat rate priority boxes.

I am a reader and have subscribed to these magazines for 50 years. I hate to throw them away as there is so much information in them. Please save these from the recycle bin!

 

[Puller]

Good on you for sharing them.

I had probably 30 years worth as well that I kept around, but finally just got tired of keeping up with them so I threw them on the burn pile last year. It was almost like an emotional release.

Now days, unless there is a specific article that I want to save, the magazine goes in the trash when I'm done reading it.

 

[Sevens]

I have also hoarded gun magazines... I kind of love them, there is probably some sickness involved and a genetic trait that makes me keep stuff.

I'm simply posting here to remind you that the USPS, for all it's failures, still does offer media mail level service.

It's slower service, but it's much cheaper in price, and periodicals fall right exactly in it's lane. You may NOT ship gun parts or tools with media mail, but you can definitely ship old issues of Gun Crank Quarterly, and it's a lot cheaper than $25.

 

[NYlakesider]

I have also hoarded gun magazines... I kind of love them, there is probably some sickness involved and a genetic trait that makes me keep stuff.

I'm simply posting here to remind you that the USPS, for all it's failures, still does offer media mail level service.

It's slower service, but it's much cheaper in price, and periodicals fall right exactly in it's lane. You may NOT ship gun parts or tools with media mail, but you can definitely ship old issues of Gun Crank Quarterly, and it's a lot cheaper than $25.

I have a few years (Circa 1950s) of Shooting Times in newspaper format in a box in a now hard to reach location in my basement.

They are now so old I have a feeling that they are in rather bad shape. I guess one of these days I will bite the bullet and take a look

 

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The USPS told me I could not use the lower rate if they had advertising in them.

I have also hoarded gun magazines... I kind of love them, there is probably some sickness involved and a genetic trait that makes me keep stuff.

I'm simply posting here to remind you that the USPS, for all it's failures, still does offer media mail level service.

It's slower service, but it's much cheaper in price, and periodicals fall right exactly in it's lane. You may NOT ship gun parts or tools with media mail, but you can definitely ship old issues of Gun Crank Quarterly, and it's a lot cheaper than $25.

 

[Golddollar]

I have also hoarded gun magazines... I kind of love them, there is probably some sickness involved and a genetic trait that makes me keep stuff.

You're probably right. I seem to be a second generation collector of gun magazine and books. I'm going to break the chain by leaving my firearms reference library to my honorary nephew who is one of the premier firearms law attorneys in PA.

 

[Kevin J.]

I have also hoarded gun magazines... I kind of love them, there is probably some sickness involved and a genetic trait that makes me keep stuff.

I'm simply posting here to remind you that the USPS, for all it's failures, still does offer media mail level service.

It's slower service, but it's much cheaper in price, and periodicals fall right exactly in it's lane. You may NOT ship gun parts or tools with media mail, but you can definitely ship old issues of Gun Crank Quarterly, and it's a lot cheaper than $25.

Question. How can the USPS service get any slower?

 

[Sevens]

The USPS told me I could not use the lower rate if they had advertising in them.

I had no idea whatsoever that this was the policy. A quick search confirms that this is correct.

Silly me -- and here I did not think I could like the USPS any less today than I did yesterday, here I am proven wrong again.

You stink, Postal.

 

[boykinlp]

I have a good many American Rifleman magazines since I am an Endowment/Lifetime member. I have also bought some old issues on eBay before, and they weren’t cheap. I bought ones telling of “new” guns coming out, like the S&W .44 magnum, Colt Python, etc.
Larry