GUNS magazine will be online for free

GUNS Magazine will be available online for free starting with the April issue! From the press release:

GUNS Magazine is now available at no charge to anyone with access to an Internet connection by visiting

Picture 7-22www.gunsmagazine.com. The new interactive digital edition of GUNS Magazine uses the latest dynamic flash, flip-page technology to create a real-time, page-turning, online magazine viewing experience. Embedded links in featured products and advertisements allow visitors easy, single-click access to manufacturer Web sites. The April 2009 digital edition also includes embedded video files that provide a glimpse of the multimedia enhancements viewers can expect in future editions.

A clever move. They should digitize the content of their archives. I am sure they hardly make any money from back ordering and they would make a fortunes from online advertising.

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Steve Feb 18th 2009 misc 9 Comments

9 Responses to “GUNS magazine will be online for free”

  1. Dannyon 19 Feb 2009 at 12:54 am link comment

    Thanks for the info. Now all they need is an RSS reader for their website, something I emailed them about many months ago.

  2. Daniel E. Watterson 19 Feb 2009 at 2:43 am link comment

    FWIW: Guns and its offspring American Handgunner offer old issues for downloads as .pdf. For Guns, it is 50+ year old issues, and for AH, 30+ year old issues.

  3. Mikeon 19 Feb 2009 at 4:05 am link comment

    You might want to note that the April issue is available now, no need to wait…

    Also, for those who dislike that fancy page-turning interface, there is a button on the bottom left that allows you to just download the issue in a standard PDF format.

  4. Matt Groomon 19 Feb 2009 at 4:20 am link comment

    Let’s hear it for the digital revolution! Firearms knowledge and opinions from years gone by shouldn’t disappear after a spring clean up. I have wanted this to happen since I was about 18 and I realized I had more boxes of gun magazines than I did space for them. It’s also very difficult to find a specific article that you rad years ago, even if you remember which magazine it was in. I applaud this move intensely.

  5. Matt Groomon 19 Feb 2009 at 4:21 am link comment

    That should be “Read” years ago.

  6. Hackoon 19 Feb 2009 at 5:04 am link comment

    Many thanks for info, Steve.

  7. Steveon 19 Feb 2009 at 10:56 am link comment

    how can I find the April issue? I was hunting around on the website but could not find it.

  8. Steveon 19 Feb 2009 at 10:58 am link comment

    Matt, tell me about it! I often think “I read that in X”, but cannot be bothered finding the issue. Thats what google is for!

  9. Thomason 19 Feb 2009 at 12:55 pm link comment

    That’s pretty amazing….and to think they thought this internet would never work….

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