Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. is “The most under-qualified and inexperienced candidate ever to be elected to this office.” I believe the Constitution lists the qualifications as being born in America and having reached the age of 35 years. President Obama certainly meets those. I do not know what Mr. Huntington considers for qualifications, but we have had several “unqualified’ presidents. George Washington lost most of his battles with the British and had little if any government experience. Abraham Lincoln was a congressman who lost senate races twice and Harry Truman did not have a college education. Keep up the good work. I enjoy reading articles that make me think. Don Sampson Via e-mail But I think, Don, the very people you mentioned brought a certain sense of life-experience and wisdom to the table, don’t you think? I wonder what we will say a few years from now about the current administration. Editor Keeping Sane I appreciate your magazine as a fairly priced and lengthy read for the money. I have often wanted to write but haven’t because the firearm culture in general feels like some kind of men’s club, a birth-rite that I don’t have — yet. You see I’m only 26 and my father was never really into firearms. While it has been something that always interested me I feel like I don’t have my membership yet, and am unsure how to get it. Sometimes I feel like the old timers — whom I have great respect for — don’t want to be bothered answering all of my questions. It’s like getting your first job with no experience when no one wants to hire you because you have no experience! In those times of discouragement I turn to your magazine. It allows me this almost voyeuristic view into the culture I wish to be a part of. I am somewhat of a “black-sheep with my peers because they are all liberalputzes and I mean that in the nicest way. As I’m sure you can guess, they hate guns and hunting and worry about things like global warming to such an extent that one particular friend has anxiety attacks — I’m not making this up. There are clearly more important things to worry about that are happening right at this second. I look forward to the day when I can join the ranks of those knowledgeable crotchety fellows who have the foresight and guts to say “get off my lawn” and other such lyrical, simple things, but things too many are hesitate to put into words. I’ll endure with the knowl- edge that while my liberal friends are crying in the streets because big brother stopped holding their hand, I will be doing fine with my own values and selfreliant ways. In the meanwhile, I find solace in your magazine and for the all-too brief time it takes me to read it cover to cover. The logic and reason I find there is a touchstone for me. Thanks for helping to keep me sane in the trenches. J.R. Via e-mail Jonathon, consider yourself hereby inducted into the ranks of we shooters. This is as official as it gets, because if the editor (His Editorship when used in the formal) of American Handgunner doesn’t have the authority to do it, nobody does. From this day forth, you are entitled to talk to the old guys, listen to their lies, tell them when they’re wrong (since you read the finest gunzines in the world you probably know better than they do anyway) and you are also hereby granted first-person e-mail questions to yours-truly and through me to my entire staff. Want to ask Clint Smith a question or ask John Taffin about a load? Send me a note. And shame on those other guys who’ve given you the cold shoulder. Anyone who doesn’t welcome a new shooter into the fold is an idiot — or WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM 15