One of my favorite magazines is Guns and Ammo. OMG!!! I become a kid in a candy store when I get the latest issue. From hand guns and bullets to holsters and news, Guns and Ammo has it all!!! This magazine (even though I mostly use the online version) helps satisfy my thirst for knowledge about my hobby and how to better my skills by using the right tools. Now, it took me a minute, but I came to the realization that my love for this magazine defines me as a consumer. I use this magazine to sift through the many options I have as a gun user; mainly what gun works best for myh hand type and competition. I buy products, not just guns, and accessories to help advance my skills. I realize that every citizen has an access to the second amendment (which is essential the right to bare arms) and if I was using this magazine to find out more about the second amendment, then I could be defined a citizen, but because I use it to find out the latest news, about how having protection can save lives, or how much my new Springfield M19 will cost, I am a consumer.
I don’t think magazines have a responsibility to educate readers as a consumer or citizen, I think that readers are attracted to what they want. Magazines are there to provide the product that the people desire. And also, isn’t that what we have newspapers for? To be educational. I know that when I started with Guns and Ammo it didn’t have nearly as many stories as it have now, but when they felt secure in their fan base they add more stories until eventually the whole last section of the magazine is about the good uses of guns and self defense mechanisms. I think that Guns and Ammo do their civic duty by encouraging people to take classes at your nearest range or club, preferably sponsored by the NRA and also mention that if you do not use your civic right to protect yourself, the government might threaten to take it from you. Most importantly, they stress how ammunition is for self protection and the protection of others and any other use is subjected to a court of law.
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