Missing gunrags from stores

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Has anyone else notices that gunrags are slowly disappearing from store magazine racks -- at least that has been my experience down here in south-east Florida. Has this been happening in other parts of the country as well?
 
I have noticed in this area a lot less gun rags at the grocery stores and such.
I thought it was just me!

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What I've noticed here in the Memphis area, is that they are being snatched up and bought almost as quick as they hit the rack.
Thus, I have the same problem, but for another reason.
Guess that beats them being banned outright by the PC crowd...

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Here in St. Louis, Missouri, gun magazines have disappeared from the small shops in malls (Waldens & B. dalton) but with the big specialty retailing outfits having taken over the bulk of the book market (Barns and Noble & Boarders) there is a bigger selection offered at more locations than ever before.
Our big grocery and drug store chains (Schnucks [rabidly anti], Dierberg's, Walgreens) still offer them about the same selection as ever.
The big book chains have virtually wiped out the smaller news stands, but the few independents left (World News) still offer the widest selection of magazines.
Small independent book stores have almost disapeared in St. Louis. I do not know of any of these that offered much in the way of firearms related books or magazines in the past. The big specialty chains offer more in the way of books than was ever available in the past, but the best specialty books are found at two area gun shops (Nassau & Frontenac Outfitters) and at gun shows.
All in all, I think there is more being offered now than ever before in our area.
 
In TX, the large supermarkets have the usual suspects. But this is TX. The large book stores have really good selections and carry
the larger publishers gun books.

I grant you that they are sometimes on lower shelves.

Then, I suggest you bend over and put some on the higher shelves over such intellectual gems as Maxim.

Before one gets to paranoid, some supermarkets have good selection of coin and scifi mags and some don't. Mags are sometimes supplied by jobbers and the racks aren't even controlled by the market.

It could just be market demand.
 
Mags are supplied by vendors even at bookstores so they are usually the ones controlling what is on the shelf. I think the problem may be that the quality of the rags has been dropping so they aren't selling.
 
I went to the local Rite-Aid yesterday and found:
Guns and Weapons for Law Enforcement
Guns And Ammo
GunWorld
Combat Handguns
Some CAS magazine
and a slew of Qutdoor magazines...

Thats $30 worth of magazines with the word "gun" in the title, thats all the magazines I need! (unless you have some Sig hicaps lying around)

I have noticed that gas stations seem to have the largest selection of periodicals today...

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I have noticed the same thing in the Tacoma, WA area. None of the big book sellers carry gun mags anymore. Most of the larger supermarket chains have stopped carrying them as well.

I hadn't thought that much about it until now. This area is such a P.C. mecca being close to Seattle that it did not surprise me at all.

Makes me wonder if HCI or other groups have been mounting a letter writing campaign to the stores?
 
I've noticed this, too, but so far mainly in grocery stores. Some local ones that used to carry the major suspects (G&A, ST) suddenly don't have them any more. Like Cactus, I've wondered if the Forces of Evil have been at work.
 
Barnes & Noble is right down the street from me. They have the whole west wall of the store filled with magazines and, if I'm lucky, I'll see 2 different gur mags.

Wal-Mart seems to have the most gun mags in my area.
 
To all of you who are finding fewer gun magazines on the racks... Pull the first few copies of the front of each pile. Can't tell you how many times I've seen them covered up by Glamour or Better Homes etc. Is this on purpose? I'm not certain, but I suspect the antis may be at work here.
 
In recent times, I have seen full selections of rags in TX, FL, OR, NY (Albany Area), IL
and PA in Barnes and Noble.

I really wonder if it is the market place and demand.
 
Walgreens Drugstore here carries Combat Handguns, Guns, American Handgunner. My favorite local bookstore (Family Books in De Land FL) has about 14 feet of shelf space devotes to guns, shooting, hunting, etc. A tip of the hat to Family Books owner Janet Bollum, a free speech/press advocate who will stock what her clientele wants to read, and political correctness be damned.

I don't see the stores stocking magazines (paper ones) much -- I suspect because it's a lower-margin items that takes a lot of display space.
 
B&N has quite a few still, but I'd noticed that 7-11 here cut way back on them two months ago. Thinking that maybe it was a seasonal theing I asked the manager of the one down the street from my house. Her response was "Maybe if you'd buy one once in a while instead of just reading them while you drink coffee." John
 
I live in the general vicinity of Littleton, CO- many of the teenagers driving around are clearly students at Columbine.

After the Coloumbine incident, the gun rags virtually disappeared within a few days. I complained, and remember hearing in the news that many others were as well.

The "mainstream" gun rags came back after about a month. I noticed several magazines with "Law Enforcement" in the title popping up, where I had never seen them before. Apparently, if the gun rag was pro LEO in appearance, the citizens didn't mind as much.

These days they are all back, that i have noticed. The local grocery store actually has more than before.
 
Haven't noticed. In fact, Ye Gifte Shoppe here at Worldcom stocks 4 different titles. King Sooper's keeps gunrags on the shelf, even politically-incorrect ones like American Handgunner and Combat Handguns.

You guys really need to come to Colorado. Once we kick Benedict Owens out on his arse, we can set about seceding. ;)
 
No, Coinneach, I'm not following you around here on the forum!

Anyway, here in Co, thigs are pretty good right now. Media Play only has one gun rag, but Barnes & Noble has about 6, including Soldier of Fortune, which is not normally seen on chain store shelves. They are on the middle rack in plain view. The grocery stores have a pretty good selection, as does Long's Drugs, formerly my favorite gun shop 'till they stopped selling guns. I have since stopped patronizing them altogether. My favorite gun shop in town (Coinneach are you listening?) is Hathaway's on Tejon. Man that place is stocked. It's just a magazine store, and it's in the middle of a busy street downtown. I know all the hippies go in and find that "Varmint Masters" is just totally cruel...awwww poor little glorified rats. Oh! and "Women and Guns" is downright shocking...why would a woman want a gun?

[This message has been edited by Frontsight! (edited July 11, 2000).]

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