Now this just ticked me off

[Curmudgeon]

...Kind of like how so many Wal-Mart employees and customers believe that their stores stopped carrying guns because Wal-Mart hates the Second Amendment and sponsors Barack AdHominem AdHominem Obama's hordes of gay atheist Muslims who break into peoples' homes and destroy their Traditional American Family Values and steal their guns, which they then use to shoot fetuses, smuggle Spanish-speaking people across the border to take jobs away from Americans, and force high school kids to take condoms to their proms...

That right there is sig-worthy!

[dannyb]

I got the same bullshit at the CVS pharmacy in Hanover. First off I hate going to the pharmacy and waiting to get the fucking prescription filled. CVS in Hanover used to carry gun mags so the wait was much more bearable. The last 2 or three times I went in I notice they don't carry hunting, shooting, or anything even related but they got more body building and diet magazines than you can shake a stick at. Now I just phone in the refill or drop off a new script and come back later.

This is one spot where I have to agree with the marketing argument. You're more likely to get some buff diet freak looking at the magazines in CVS than people into firearms, hunting, and target sports.

My mother complained that CVS no longer carries a magazine that she bought there once in 2001; it was carried by the local magazine stands too. She wanted to buy a copy last week only to find out that back in 2005, the chief editor had spoken to the last reporter and asked, "Margaret bought a copy of our magazine in 2001. Is Margaret going to buy one of our magazines tomorrow?" To which the reporter replied, "No." So the magazine editor said, "I guess that we have to go out of business."

If we don't buy them there, they aren't going to stock them. If we don't subscribe or buy them, they go out of business. The continued survival of magazines that I don't buy shows that audiences vary - as may your mileage.

[xxflyboixx]

I also agree that it could have very well been a marketing issue. Our magazine sales are way down as well, with the gun mags topping that list. BUT, even though the sales are crap, we still gladly carry about 5 or 6 different mags.
Keeps me entertained when its slow here....

Screw Walden Books....come to Barnes & Noble! lol

[tdyoung58]

I thought Walden`s was now Borders and I thought that is where I look up gun prices in their gunbook section. Does Border`s sell gun rags>

Yep, same people. I've bought a few books and magazines at a Border's before... Gonna send a Certified letter, they work better than a e-mail in my past experience, when I get home from work on Friday. Still working on it. Will post it when I finish it.

[Willie D]

Maybe they only stock what consistantly sells?

Damn capitalism!

[Pooch15825]

Was at Lebanon Valley Mall today stopped in Walden books to look for a book I've been wanting to read. Found it there, (I hate paperback books, like 'real' books ). Was waiting in line to buy a book at the checkout and decided to check out the gun magazines before paying.... well there are NONE, not even a damned hunting magazine.

They have all sorts of different porno magazines, magazines glorifying the use of illegal drugs, bunches of teen slut magazines and everything else you can think of.

So I asked when I got back to the register to buy the book,

'How come you guys don't have any gun magazines?'

She told me - 'because gun magazines lead to higher crime, but sometimes we get hunting magazines in the fall' as she smiled and held her arm out for the book I had.

WTF? Put the book on the counter along with one of my 'NO Guns = NO $$$$ cards and left. There wasn't no way in hell I was gonna buy that book there after that comment. Gonna send a bitch letter off to the corporate headquarters as well. To hell with Walden Books

Not sure if the same policy is in effect, but in the early part of 2000 I stopped at a Walden Books, at the DuBois Mall, on my lunch break from work. I was looking at the discount books and while there looked for some gun magazines, same as you. They had plenty, but I also saw a magazine that I had heard of on a "60 Minutes" or one of those news shows. It was about a group called NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) there is actually a group of men out there that promote relationships between men and boys. Guess what was sitting on the magazine rack? Yep, one of their magazines. I was pissed and took it over too the cashier along with the books I was planning on buying, I laid the mag on top of the pile.

As the cashier went to ring it up I told her, "Wait, I don't want to buy that, I want to know why the hell it is on the rack for sale"? She looked confused and asked me what I meant and I told her what it was about, she opened it and got white. She didn't know it was even on the rack, she called someone else over asked her and she told me that the way they choose magazines is by request, if they get enough requests for a particular magazine they send the requests to corporate and they decide whether there is enough potential for sales. She also told me that if they have mags that don't sell well after a while they are removed from the shelves, and it is the store personel that let corporate know what is not selling.

They pulled the magazine off the shelf and said they would let corporate know about it. I asked in all seriousness if there were actually that many people in that town that were interested enough in this sort of garbage that they requested it. She had no answer.

Anyway, if the employees are the ones to tell corporate that a magazine doesn't sell and they decide to pull it from the shelves because of that, an antigun employee could hide the mags, at the end of the month say none were sold and corporate might assume that they were not worth having on the shelves. So it might have been someone opposed to gun magazines on the shelves and did their little bit to have them removed.

Just a thought, I would ask corporate specifically what their policy is on this subject.

Oh, I didn't buy any of the books I had taken to the register either, I told the lady I would check back at a later date and if they still had that perveted trash on the shelves I would never buy there again, if they had fixed that problem I would be back to buy my books. They got rid of the trash.
Pooch

[cigarmanpa]

Maybe they only stock what consistantly sells?

Damn capitalism!

I'm taking more of an issue with the comment then the not carrying mags.

if they aren't selling they aren't selling I can see not carrying them but the "gun mags lead to crime" come on now. that's like saying a cooking mag makes people fat

[BerksCountyDave]

I'm taking more of an issue with the comment then the not carrying mags.

if they aren't selling they aren't selling I can see not carrying them but the "gun mags lead to crime" come on now. that's like saying a cooking mag makes people fat

Like has been mentioned, that was likely just a comment from a libtard employee rather than an actual company policy.

Borders and Walden are the same company. I open carry in Borders at least twice a month with NO issues and they have shitloads of gun mags on the rack. I don't think it's company policy.

[XD40coyote]

The local Rutters store in New Freedom has 2-3 gun mags in their little magazine rack, plus I saw a hunting mag or 2 as well. Must be really hillbilly in New Freedom LOL, maybe OCing wouldn't turn any heads there afterall. That same mag rack probably also has muscle car mags, bodybuilder mags, 4WD/offroad mags, motorcycle mags... ( I have seen all of these plus a nice selection of gun and hunting mags at the Giant food in Shrewsbury btw, though I haven't been there in a while).

I used to go to a Barnes and Nobles in Towson MD, and they had a buttload of hunting mags and probably gun mags as well. I didn't pay attention to the gun mags. There were also gun and hunting mags at the "Gucci" Giant food store in Hunt Valley. Baltimore county is more redneck than you think LMAO!

[rodder]

Whiskey... Tango... Foxtrot...

I'd be willing to bet they had "High Times" on the rack, showing photos of people partaking in what everyone knows is an illegal habit as well as pictures of the contraband itself.

So, they support illegal drug abuse but oppose lawful firearm ownership? and if they honestly believe magazines about guns increase crime, what do they think is gonna happen when they put drug and porn magazines on the shelf? Guns? = bad, Illegal Drug Abuse and Promiscuity? = Awesome!

Walden Books is getting an earful the next time I find one.

Oh, and as for Barnes & Noble, I have spent hours in my local B&N perusing the firearm magazines. They have an entire section of the magazine rack dedicated to all things hunting, firearms, and edged weapons-related. The gun magazine section is probably as big or bigger than the home improvement or automotive sections, to give you an idea.