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TheGunMag.com is a publication of the Second Amendment Foundation.

The final issue of Gun Week was dated Dec. 1, 2011. With the publication and mailing of this issue of Gun Week, a unique and important 45-year adventure in publishing for the firearms community came to an end.

The legacy and purpose of Gun Week, launched in 1966 to provide reliable, independent weekly news for the entire family of firearms owners, firearms civil rights activists and the gun industry, will live on in multiple forms.

Gun Week has been a labor of love and individual dedication throughout its history, but it never has been a money-maker for any of its three publishing companies.

Production costs have always escalated, especially postage. It has gotten to the point where the cost of mailing each issue is about twice the cost of producing it. In the current economic climate, a major increase in subscription prices seemed out of order as an alternative.

Some readers will remember that Gun Week frequency was cut from a weekly in January 1996 to three times a month, and then to twice a month in January 2007. The relentless increase in the cost of postage and necessary increases in subscription prices were not the only threat to the publication. The advent of the Internet and access to news and commentary has changed our reading habits and divided us between those who still like to hold the written page and others who want to access information in capsulized form instantly at the click of a button.

The trustees of the Second Amendment Foundation see no reason to be wasteful with the donations of our supporters in order to prop up a news vehicle that could no longer live up to the name of a weekly, or even a bi-weekly. A more vigorous legal action agenda in defense of the Second Amendment seems a wiser investment.

But in order to keep the legacy of Gun Week, The Second Amendment Foundation has created a new monthly magazine called TheGunMag.com and a new website of the same name. However, the content will not be exactly the same.

This dual medium approach will enable us to continue to publish and deliver all of the news in a monthly format, under production deadlines that are much shorter and speedier than other monthly gun magazines, while returning to a weekly news update on the Internet through TheGunMag.com site.

TheGunMag.com print and online editions will continue to deliver the news as fast as both processes will allow. The monthly print edition will include most of the same news, features and writers you relied on Gun Week to deliver. However, TheGunMag.com website will enable us to be more up to date on the news side, with news reports summarized by the week and posted weekly.

TheGunMag.com will have wider newsstand sales at the single copy rate of $3.95 US ($5.95 in Canada), with subscription prices of $25 for one year (12 issues), and $45 for two years (24 issues).

The Second Amendment Foundation remains committed to fulfilling its mission as an informational and educational resource for gunowners while pursuing an accelerated program of legal action for all gunowners’ rights.

I invite you to join us as a subscriber to the monthly TheGunMag.com print edition.

Sincerely,
Joseph P. Tartaro
Executive Editor
President, Second Amendment Foundation


For more information, please visit www.TheGunMag.com