Death of the Gunwriters

Once upon a time in a land not very far away, but a time that seems long forgotten, there were gunwriters worth reading. People like Elmer Keith. And they wrote and editted magazines worth reading as well, like the old Guns and Ammo.

But those days are gone, a fact ably demonstrated by the fact that none of Keith's books are currently in print. Today the gun mags are really just gun rags. You will never hear a bad word spoken of any firearm because to do so would anger the advertisers. You will see pretty pictures and little else. Unless you read Gun Tests, then you will see lots of shoddy statistical analysis. I subscribe to one gun mag, American Rifleman, because it came free with my NRA membership.

Which is why some of the best gun writing done right now is on then internet for free. Blogs, shooting forums like The High Road and The Firing Line, and dedicated model websites like this one for the excellent and inexpensive Bersa Thunder all do great work. Gun writing isn't dead, but it is slowly becoming an amateur art again. What a shame.