Shooting magazines removed from Kroger

[GF]

I'll miss them being in Kroger.
There's a magazine called "Recoil" that had great pictures of guns that are tacticool with three thousand dollar scopes on 'em.
I always slipped off from my wife in the store so I could read it.
I never BOUGHT it 'cause it's $10 and I'm too cheap.

I did buy Guns of the Old West sometimes. Not interested enough to subscribe.

No it's not about freedom of speech but it does take it out of the public eye as something as "normal" as other topics.

GF

 

[dben002]

I'm old enough to remember when they took out the "Girly" magazines.... and how upsetting that was .....

 

[kwselke]

While grocery shopping at my local Kroger this morning I stopped by the magazine racks. In the 22 years I've shopped at that Kroger I had never bought any kind of magazines there. Attached is a picture I took of the gun magazines they had available. Whether or not Kroger continues to stock these magazines will not have a bearing on my grocery purchase decisions. I had no idea there was a Recoil magazine, or care if Kroger continues to stock it. Other grocery stores I shop at carry no magazines at all, and Kroger does not need to stock magazines of any kind for me to buy their weekly sale items.

 

[Muss Muggins]

That Elvis magazine is a good one . . .

 

[greenb69]

Kroger left our town 18 years ago and our hometown store took over and carries many magazines on guns. Don't miss Kroger at all.

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[Toyman]

I have yet to see any store say they will remove the war related video games that have a great influence on the young mind.
These have more influence than magazines, my take is only older guys/girls buy magazines related to firearms.

 

[nachogrande]

GOOD FOR 1 THING.

Il grab a handful of them & read them while waiting for my oil change @ WM. Charge to me, zilch.

 

[brjr51]

Ok, I'll admit to buying a gun related mag at my local grocer(not Kroger) yesterday. Hogdons 2018 Annual Reloading Manual.

 

[the ringo kid]

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.

I heard yesterday that they said they were not stopping selling all gun rags-just those featuring AR style guns. Heard this on the Joe Pags Radio show.

 

[the ringo kid]

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 . . .

"They" is easily figured out and you already know who "they" are without this man naming names.

 

[the ringo kid]

While grocery shopping at my local Kroger this morning I stopped by the magazine racks. In the 22 years I've shopped at that Kroger I had never bought any kind of magazines there. Attached is a picture I took of the gun magazines they had available. Whether or not Kroger continues to stock these magazines will not have a bearing on my grocery purchase decisions. I had no idea there was a Recoil magazine, or care if Kroger continues to stock it. Other grocery stores I shop at carry no magazines at all, and Kroger does not need to stock magazines of any kind for me to buy their weekly sale items.

I didn't notice any gun magazines but, DID notice Reba on the cover of Cowboys and Indians-which is an excellent magazine...

 

[the ringo kid]

Il grab a handful of them & read them while waiting for my oil change @ WM. Charge to me, zilch.

They stopped carrying True West, I miss that magazine.

 

[CATI1835]

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

I think it probably is. When I was growing up there were no gun magazines that I recall (NRA publications aside). In fact, even into the seventies I only remember Shotgun News. So you could make the argument we are returning to those "good old days", at least when it comes to magazines.

Besides, as already noted here, they are over priced with mediocre content.

 

[NYlakesider]

Yeah gun magazines are dangerous!

A few years back we were flying and I had a "Guns&Ammo" Magazine in one of the outside pockets of my carry on luggage. I was planning to read it during the flight! Luggage was of a approved size to go up in the overhead.

One of the TSA people saw the magazine and I saw him talk to a superior. Yep I got signaled out for a enhanced look over, all for a few sheets of printed material. After that I do not put any thing in those outside pouches.

 

[nachogrande]

IMO,GUN MAGS IN THEIR HAY DAY

Before the interweb with writers like Skelton, Jordan, Carmichael, Zumbo, etc. etc. A 2$ price tag & not many other options, I bought piles of them, then donated them to VAMC waiting rooms. 8-10$ for todays garbage, no freakin way. Mags/books/newspapers will be going the way of the dodo, IMO. I went to the library recently, (is Dewey Decimal a hip hop band?) & "you want a book?, I suppose we can order it for you, wouldn't you rather read it now on a computer?" NO THANK YOU.

 

[Muss Muggins]

"They" is easily figured out and you already know who "they" are without this man naming names.

Pretty sure "they" is a moving target depending on who is trying to identify "they . . . "

 

[500SNW]

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.

How about saving a bunch of them and donating them to your local library? That way somebody else...often the less fortunate citizens who can't afford subscriptions or iPhones...might be able to enjoy the use of them.

 

[BC38]

I think it probably is. When I was growing up there were no gun magazines that I recall (NRA publications aside). In fact, even into the seventies I only remember Shotgun News. So you could make the argument we are returning to those "good old days", at least when it comes to magazines.

Besides, as already noted here, they are over priced with mediocre content.

You must have "grown up" before and or in a different country than I did then. There were dozens of gun magazines on the rack at the grocery stores and convenience stores when I was a kid in the 70's.

Guns & Game, Guns & Hunting, Guns Illustrated, Guns & Survival, Guns Magazine, Guns Quarterly, Guns Review, Gun Sport, Gun World, Popular Guns, Sporting Shooter - and the list goes on...

Now as to quality, I'd probably have to agree with the statements
made by you and by others - the content has gone downhill and most now seem to be purely advertising. There aren't as many quality gun writers as there used to be...

 

[timjake]

Locally, Kroger's goes by Baker's. I was there this morning and saw a few gun magazines still on the shelves. Since I normally don't look for them there, no idea if that's normal or being slowly eliminated.

 

[ladder13]

Just another bump, nothing to see here.

Fred Meyer to stop selling guns, ammunition