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seamusTX wrote:

WildBill wrote:I suppose it's very difficult to wheedle a weapon when the weapon is still only a model on the designer's computer.

Magazines and the industries that they cover have a symbiotic relationship (to put it diplomatically). Magazines need advertising dollars, and vendors need an advertising vehicle for the products that they sell.

This is true of just about everything—guns, cars, motorcycle, clothing, furniture, etc.

I would think the vendors and magazine editors correspond regularly, telling each other what they are planning to publish or what they are planning to announce in the near future. However, as I said, I never worked at that level.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:

WildBill wrote:... planning the contents of a monthly magazine is a longer term effort. I suspect that the advertisements play a larger role than the actual articles....

This is correct.

They plan a year in advance. Let's say they're going to have an article about compact polymer pistols. They will solicit some of their known writers to write the articles, and they will solicit manufacturers to buy advertising in the same issue. Along the way someone also has to wheedle weapons for evaluation from the manufacturers. I don't know how that aspect works.

- Jim

Heartland Patriot wrote:

seamusTX wrote:The lead time of print magazines is months. (I have written a few magazine articles, without a byline, unfortunately).

- Jim

I didn't know it would be months as in plural, I thought computers would make it faster ... but I'll take your word, and experience, over my guesses. Thanks.

seamusTX wrote:

WildBill wrote:The wheels of justice turn ever so slowly.

Arraignment is supposed to occur within a certain short period after indictment. Usually it's pretty routine. The defendant pleads not guilty. Maybe nobody remembered to go to the hearing or look it up later.

In many cases the defense attorney starts broadcasting a defense soon after the indictment, but not necessarily.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:A month has passed, and there is no news on this topic. Nada. Not even rumors.

- Jim