Shooting magazines removed from Kroger

[H Richard]

This is not political. Just reporting information. The Kroger stores have announced nationwide to remove any magazine that has any mention of Tactical Shooting. They provided a listing and it includes just about every shooting related magazine that has ever been published.

 

[LVSteve]

No great loss. Smith's (Kroger stores out West) have been slowly cutting their selection of products to the degree that I am shopping there less and less these days. So much for the improving economy.

 

[Geronimo Jim]

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

 

[500SNW]

They've been gradually reducing the gun mags at local Kroger's for the last couple of years. I cannot even find "Guns of The Old West" at my Kroger.

I'm sure this latest move by Kroger will make students much safer in the classroom.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Time to shop elsewhere. And let them know why.

 

[Golddollar]

Did the magazines hold too many pages?

 

[1stgarand]

So now they are taking away "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech".

 

[the ringo kid]

No loss 'ear. 'Avent 'ad a Krogers 'ear in over 30 years.

 

[Muss Muggins]

So now they are taking away "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech".

A private entity not selling a particular private publication does not violate either of those tenets of the First Amendment . . .

Wal-Mart's failure to sell Wicker's Baste certainly reduces the general welfare, but you don't see me crying "What about the Preamble?"

 

[nachogrande]

DID ANYONE NOTICE, OR CARE?

The overall quality of writing (or should I say promoting products) has become God awful. The articles focus on guns I couldn't care less about, and the price for these rags is absurd. I don't think I've paid for a gun mag in a good 10 years, maybe more.

 

[1stgarand]

A private entity not selling a particular private publication does not violate either of those tenets of the First Amendment . . .

It is just another "bite of the elephant" they are taking. Personally, I could care less. Don't buy them anyway. Why not stop selling ALL magazines? Why pick on gun magazines? To appease the antis. I can see the end game. but that's just me.

 

[UncleEd]

General wisdom is that one of the best
magazines is American Handgunner.

Signed up for a 5-year subscription because
it was so cheap.

I might read 10 or 15 percent of this "best"
magazine every two months.

As to newstand magazines, I've seen a
dominant theme of assault rifles, sniper
rifles with bearded men in camouflage
sporting large knives and looking real
mean.

Then there's the other trend of manufactures
such as Kimber issuing magazines without the
label "this is a Kimber" issue full of reviews of its products.

I know all this because Publix still has a large
selection of gun magazines, mostly aimed at
aggressiveness and he-manness.

It's all about kill before "they" kill you.

 

[BigBoy99]

I guess if we carry on with this trend, soon automotive magazines will be removed because of the number of people killed with motor vehicles. Then the attacks on the AAA will begin because they are the group which supports the use of the deadly automotive interests.

Then will the food and cooking magazine go because people die from being overweight?

It seems to be laying the ground work for events which happened in Germany on 10 May 1933 when 25,000 books were burned.

 

[Muss Muggins]

It is just another "bite of the elephant" they are taking. Personally, I could care less. Don't buy them anyway. Why not stop selling ALL magazines? Why pick on gun magazines? To appease the antis. I can see the end game. but that's just me.

Who is "they?"

Just because one place won't sell gun magazines, which you don't buy, doesn't mean they're not available elsewhere. The magazine business in general is a dying breed, soon to be replaced by digital. I subscribe to Sports Illustrated, get the magazine in the mailbox every week. The magazine goes in the trash, because through my subscription I can access it on my phone, and it's easier to carry my phone than a magazine. I'll start considering bites of the elephant when "they" tell the gun magazines that they must close, otherwise, that's just another freedom that Kroger enjoys due to our Constitution . . .

 

[UncleEd]

Funny thing about "magazines" is that
one which I find has articles I want to
read is Dillon's Blue Press.

More often than not two or even three
articles attract me.

And because I'm into revolvers, such
sites as Lucky Gunner and RevolverGuy
along with Grant Cunningham always seem
to have something "new" I want to read
about.

 

[1stgarand]

Who is "they?"

"They" are the ones bowing to the anti gun crowd. It's pretty clear to me.

 

[daniel lawecki]

Kroger ran the completion out Toledo area. I read Handloaders by Wolfe publishing. You get 3 magazines for $20.00 or so. Better reading then all the others more info.

 

[Faulkner]

Well, this does not seem to be the same America I grew up in.

 

[old bear]

Well, this does not seem to be the same America I grew up in.

And, most of the changes we are undergoing are not for the better.

 

[Watchdog]

Another one.