NRA: Obama To Push Gun Control Soon
To the dismay of the Brady Campaign and other gun ban groups, President Barack Obama didn’t address gun control during his State of the Union address on January 25th.
However, Newsweek reports that “in the next two weeks, the White House will unveil a new gun-control effort,” and that the White House confirms, “Obama will address the gun issue in a separate speech, likely early next month.” According to Newsweek, Obama believes that gun laws have been “too loose for much longer than just the past few weeks” following the murders in Tucson, Arizona.
Precisely what President Obama might have in mind is uncertain. His post-election transition website advocated reimposing the expired federal “assault weapon” ban, but that ban would clearly be irrelevant in the wake of a shooting that involved a firearm not covered by the old ban. Read more
More on Declining Magazine Sales
Let’s take another look at the state of the declining magazine business in this country, or at least the declining business of some magazines. As we noted earlier this week, gun magazines have actually seen a rise in readership, while numerous mainstream media magazines have shed a ton of readers – almost to the point that you have to wonder how those publications are still publishing at all.
According to Business Insider, Newsweek (which was sold this past week for the princely sum of $1) was down nearly 40 percent year-over-year, while Playboy dropped 34 percent. And yet magazines such as American Hunter have seen an increase of nearly 8 percent in readership, while the NRA’s American Rifleman climbed by nearly 15 percent!
Maybe there will finally be something worth reading!
Newsbusters Takes Aim at Newsweek
Thank you to our friends at Newsbusters for calling out Newsweek‘s biased reporting on the issue of firearms in checked bags on Amtrak trains.
As Newsbusters reported, Newsweek made this an issue suggesting that the NRA’s push to allow travelers to carrying their guns (again unloaded and in checked bags only) would somehow open the door for terrorists. Of course we’d like to ask Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff when was the last time he was actually on a train?
