Thursday, November 7, 2013

Guns & Ammo Fires Dick Metcalf (Updated)

The Truth About Guns has the press release from Jim Bequette, the editor of Guns & Ammo. In it, Bequette admits it was a mistake to run Metcalf's editorial which suggested caving to the anti-gun/pro-crime agitprops. Bequette also announced that Eric Poole would be stepping up to take Metcalf's old position.

Metcalf certainly has a right to his opinions; however, the readers of Guns & Ammo also have a right on where to spend their money.

Updated (11/8/2013): Jim Barrett writing at TTAG doesn't buy Beguette's apology. After noting that Beguette is on way out shortly, Barrett postulates:

While I can’t explain Metcalf’s intentions in writing it, the fact is that Bequette, a short-timer editor, had very little to lose and lots to gain had this olive branch to civilian disarmers been better received by G&A’s readership. This looks to have been a trial balloon floated to test the waters. Why they though that would be a good idea given the year that gun owners just had is a mystery. Still, if the reception had been at all positive (or even neutral), G&A would have looked like a thought leader in bringing “reasonable discourse” to this issue of gun regulation. Instead, they got bulldozed (surprise!), they tossed Metcalf to the wolves and moved on.
As a result, I have to strongly question either Bequette’s supposed dedication to the Second Amendment or his intelligence. In either case, it makes me think that G&A is moving away from its core constituency as it apparently no longer seems to understand it. And I’m about done with them.

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