Story About Gun Culture Banishment Not Breaking News

The New York Times and other media are highlighting the troubles visited upon an icon of the gun world for backing some common sense regulations.

The Times does expand the story, but the publicity department at this blog points out that a link to the issue spotted earlier on CNN was carried here in early November:

The editor of Guns & Ammo magazine apologized to readers and resigned immediately, earlier than planned, after he published a column advocating gun control, enraging his readers.

Editor Jim Bequette wanted to "generate a healthy exchange of ideas on gun rights" when he published a commentary by Dick Metcalf, who wrote that he supported regulations on firearms.

Instead, the column in the December issue "aroused unprecedented controversy" among readers who began "questioning 'Guns & Ammo's commitment to the Second Amendment," Bequette wrote in his apology.

Bequette also fired Metcalf, a gun writer who had written the Firearms Law column for the magazine's sister publication, Shooting Times.