[h=1]The Editorial That Got a Longtime Writer at the ‘World’s Most Widely Read Firearms Magazine’ Fired[/h]Nov. 7, 2013 7:43pm
Dave Urbanski
After Guns & Ammo magazine ran contributing editor **** Metcalf’s piece advocating gun control for the December 2013 issue, social media exploded — and Metcalf was fired from the “world’s most widely read firearms magazine.”
**** Metcalf (Image source: The Truth About Guns)
“Way too many gun owners still seem to believe that any regulation of the right to keep and bear arms is an infringement,” Metcalf wrote in the controversial “
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“The fact is, all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be.”
“All U.S. citizens have a right to keep and bear arms,” he added, “but I do not believe that they have a right to use them irresponsibly.”
Not surprisingly the
Guns & Ammo Facebook site was inundated with denunciations and notices of soon-to-be cancelled subscriptions from gun-rights advocates.
But another reactionary contingent was getting fired up about the editorial, too: The
gun-control crowd.
In fact the
Washington Times wonders if the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence — one of the most prominent gun-control groups — inspired what’s become a large swath of kudos from supporters of stricter gun laws by sharing a link of the editorial on its wall stating that the “the editor (sic) of Guns & Ammo makes an argument for gun regulation.”
And after word got out Wednesday night that Metcalf was fired from his Guns & Ammo technical editor gig over his gun-control editorial, again gun-rights advocates took to social media and said that was the right thing to do; some even said too much damage had been done to warrant forgiveness in the form of renewed subscriptions.
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