Scovill, editor of Handloader, Rifle, etc., takes aim at NRA

[leverfan]

Well, it looks like Wolfe publishing is having such bad sales, they can't even compete with the NRA's Women's Outlook hitting the Walmart newsstands.  In the January 2004 issue of Rifle, Scovill warns that advertisers and industry supporters of the NRA won't take kindly to newsstand competition, almost as if he's threatening an advertisers' boycott of the NRA.  He accuses the NRA of being "dumb as a stump", and "biting the hand that fed it for many years."  Scovill must have forgotten which outfit has kept him in business by protecting everyone's right to keep and bear arms.  If the NRA wants to add new, politically savvy gun owners to the fold, especially voting gun owners, and newsstands are the place to do it, then I say, go for it.

I would never advocate a boycott of any of the shooting magazines, but if you think that Dave Scovill needs to lay off of the NRA, you might want to drop him a line.  Be sure to buy the January issue of Rifle magazine and read what he has to say first (besides, it sounds like he needs the money).

Dave Scovill, Editor in Chief
2625 Stearman Rd., Suite A
Prescott, Arizona 86301

telephone:  (928) 445-7810
fax:  (928) 778-5124
www.riflemagazine.com

[Jack Crevalle]

Nothing could be smarter than getting more women involved in shooting sports. In my experience, it is usually the soccer-mom types who comprise the bulk of the anti-gun crowd and only because of ignorance. They have been brain washed by Oprah and her clones into this nonsense that inanimate objects can some how rise up and kill someone. If they knew the truth they'd be trying to get a ban on 5-gallon plastic buckets instead of evil "assault weapons".

I have a good friend who is otherwise an intelligent person who is of the opinion that "nobody needs to own a gun". It is one of my goals to take her shooting one day. She told me last year that she was afraid of "all the school shootings". When I told her that even with counting the Columbine shooting that shootings in schools had actually declined, she was of course surprised. It doesn't fit with the propaganda she's been fed.

The club I belong to is really pushing for the participation of women. This is indeed a very good thing and could go far to securing our rights.