Kroger pulling any magazine with “assault weapon” content off its racks. As many as 57 gun publications will be affected. A sign of the times. If true, what other supermarket chains will follow suit? And what does this mean for the future of gun media?
Kroger is reportedly removing certain gun magazines from its in-store racks, affecting as many as 57 titles.
Any publication with “Assault Weapons” content is on the chopping block, according to Jim Shepard who obtained a copy of the memorandum. Other gun-related mags that don’t contain those scary black rifles will be placed on the top of the display.
Titles that will be pulled include: Guns & Ammo, Guns Magazine, Firearm News, Military Surplus, Modern Firearms, On Target, Recoil, Rifle Shooter, S.W.A.T., Special Weapons, Tactical Firearms, Gun Buyer Annual, Gun Guide, Gun World, and World of Firepower.
GunsAmerica reached out to Kroger to confirm the report but have yet to receive a response from the company’s Public Relations division. We will update the article if/when we hear back.
Assuming it’s true, this is a big deal for our brothers on the print side of gun media. Access to readers via mainstream locations is critical for growth. It’s a way to reach those who aren’t monthly or weekly subscribers. Casual readers and shoppers, folks on the periphery who may have a seasonal or occasional interest in firearms.
The big question is what if other supermarkets and convenient stores follow suit? That could be a death knell to publications struggling to make ends meet.
When it comes to attacking the 2A and gun owners there’s a lot of monkey-see, monkey-do going on out there nowadays. In fact, just as Dick’s and Walmart made announcements that they would no longer sell firearms or ammo to adults under the age of 21, Kroger jumped on that bandwagon.
“Recent events demonstrate the need for additional action on the part of responsible gun retailers,” said the company in a recent statement obtained by CNBC. “We are raising the minimum age to 21 to purchase firearms and ammunition in all of our Fred Meyer locations that sell firearms.”
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Kroger also touted its decision several years ago to stop selling “assault-style rifles” in Fred Meyer locations in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It’s now expanding that policy to include Alaska.
“We believe these are common sense steps we can take immediately that are in line with our values and our vision,” it stated.
Kroger was once thought to be a gun-friendly business. When pressured by Moms Demand Action in 2015 to ban open carry, Kroger CFO Michael Schlotman didn’t cave.
“If the local gun laws are to allow open carry, we’ll certainly allow customers to do that based on what the local laws are,” said Schlotman. “We don’t believe it’s up to us to legislate what the local gun control laws should be. It’s up to the local legislators to decide to do that.”
Times are changing. And fast. Giving gun mags the same treatment as smut rags is a sign of the times. A bellwether of what’s to come.
If you are a second amendment advocate then either boycott Kroger or write them to voice your opinion.
They will probably leave the porn, the pro-LGBTQ crap and anything that promotes the commie left agendas up.
Interesting that these companies are feeling good about removing gun rags. I dont know of any evidence or data which connects these magazines to a single case of gun violence. Buy their standards, they are taking both a hypocritical and irrational action in banning these magazines. By the same reasoning, they should be taking tobacco out of their stores because there IS clear evidence that causes deaths and other health problems. They should also remove alcohol from their stores, because it is used 100% of the time in drunk driving. They should also stop selling gasoline because it too is used 100% of the time in drunk driving cases. I would be willing to say, there is at least one drunk driving case where both the alcohol and the gasoline were purchased at a Kroger or Fred Meyer store. Using the same thinking I guarantee we could find a lung cancer victim who purchased tobacco at a Kroger or Fred Meyer store. So why ban a magazine with no evidence of causing harm, and not other products with a clear evidence of harmful effects? Using their own rationale, one could argue that Kroger and Fred Meyer condone drunk driving.
The Safeway store here in Soldotna, Alaska has pulled ALL firearm related magazines off their shelves. An insult to the majority of their customers here in Alaska.
We have more people killed every year because of texting than by guns! These people making decisions as to my 1st and 2nd amendment rights with their emotional controlled decisions I guess they don’t care where I choose to to shop.
I was at the HEB on Buffalo Speedway (Houston) today and no gun magazines were displayed on the magazine shelves. They had been there earlier in the week.
Meijer stores (a midwest chain) are going to be pulling these magazines from shelves too.
our Kroger in Humble, TX (Atascosita Store) has pulled all the magazines that were listed. Shame on them. I was looking all over the rack for RECOIL…now I understand. Tomorrow I will go to HEB grocery store…..perhaps they will. have my exclusive business…..if they have not followed suit. Shame on Kroger !
Sure, but Wal-Mart is trying to change the law and raised the age requirement to purchase weapons in their stores. Or did you miss that??
It’s true. I called our local store which is a Kroger by another name. I can’t believe these nuts. They’re not even actual assault rifles! They’re banning magazines because of how a gun LOOKS.
Pro 2A is not helped by anti-semites. Nazis love gun control.
Pro 2A people should picket businesses that adopt hostile practices such as this.
Zionist Leftist Wall Street obviously backs removal of the 2nd Amendment, because it is perceived to be a threat to their corporate police state. That is why we have the 2nd amendment, because they are acting against the American people at every turn.
Sorry Kroger’s, as well as Hillary Clinton and the gun grabbing lobby out there, but “common sense” is realizing that firearm are TOOLS, not the part that does the killing. That designation belongs to the face in the mirror of these POS that use “Gun Free Zones” as “Free Fire Zones” and kill as many people as they can BEFORE someone with a gun of their own (and the balls to use it, a quick nod to the Broward County Sheriff’s Dept. for their cowardly response) shows up to stop them. “Common sense” is NOT starting a war on the Constitution by denying both the 1st and 2nd Amendments Rights guaranteed us in that document. Luckily there are no Kroger’s around my area, it saves me the trouble of adding them to my “boycott list”, along with Wal Mart, Dick’s and any company that has parted ways with the NRA.
Are these Nazi’s also burning these books that promote guns and freedom that they don’t like and don’t want to stick their neck out for? Nobody was going after magazines like these anyway they just took it upon themselves to be antigun and anti free speech all on their own.
I was at the local Fred Meyer in WA state. The only magazines I saw on display were handgun ones. There were NO magazines that had an AR style rifle on them…
At the moment, Walmart carries these publications, and their superstores carry fresh produce, meats and everything else one finds at Kroger and Albertson’s.
It is a shitty store that I do not endorse anyway.
these magazines are gone in Chillicothe Il Kroger
Cabela’s sells rifles to 18-21 year olds…because they’re not Dicks.
So does the re-organized Gander, named Gander Outdoors. Amazing selection.
About 30 years ago I read an article in a firearms magazine about an anti-gun group that didn’t “feel” young people should be able to shoot, to hold, to see, to read, or to even learn about firearms This anti-gun outfit felt that if children, and teenagers, weren’t ever “exposed” to learning about firearms, then as adults they wouldn’t be interested in owning a firearm. Since these adults aren’t interested in firearm ownership they could become potential anti-gun advocates. Unfortunately, those young people who weren’t “exposed” to learning about the positive aspects of firearms grew up to be anti-gun Dimocraps.
These are probably the same that are today encouraging young people to explore alternative sexual identity (gender) and decide which pronoun they want to be called.
Been telling my wife and she telling me,lol,America has gone to hell thanks to libs and most teachers who are libs also..Damn ,I wish we could go back to the ’50s..
I used to do all my grocery shopping at Smith’s, which is a Kroger affiliate, but not anymore. That’s too bad, since they have decent prices and a nice selection of products, including a nice deli.
Oh well. There other grocers closer to my house. I just preferred Smith’s.
I was about to joke with the manager of our local CVS pharmacy about their magazine section because I noticed that the location formerly filled with gun magazines on their rack– now had only “Jesus” themed magazines. At first I thought this must have been a rather comical coincidental fluke. As it happens the manager became busy so I just ignored it at the time chuckling to myself.
After reading this I now realize I was right!.. The magazines were gone because somebody in the CVS pharmacy chain decided to censer the reading material because of some corporate agenda…. which apparently is yet another example of “band-wagon” jumping to be able to say “me too” to the demands of the ignorant and unthinking.
Here it appears an attack on the 2nd amendment ,ie the furor over guns, an assault the First ammendment, which protects censorship of free speech. I guess it will come as a shock when these sad backward looking politicians awaken and realize that all of the rights denoted in the bill of rights are quite interdependent and an an attack on one will cause them all to falter and eventually fail.
These symptoms are prognosticative of a huge larger issue which shall catalyze tensions between what I think will now be come to known as constitituionalists and those who think there is a better way to run a Democratic Republic, who we shall label the dream weavers. Those old constitution drafters were so “Old-Fashioned” that surely we the enlightened dream weavers can do a better job to craft a blueprint for our unprotected, crime free, “normal thinkers” who are not by ancient writings like the constitution.
A day is coming soon when there is an increasing likelihood of a schism which will rival the civil war… and the subject will be the constitution and fate of our way of life.
Just one man’s thoughts.
Kroger banning reading material? Didn’t Hitler and Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, do exactly the same thing in the 1940’s? And, Kroger is definitely a name of Germanic origin. We not only have leftists, socialists, and liberals in our midst. we’ve got Nazi’s, too…
Banning reading material. I’m sure that will go a long way toward stopping school shootings. America is quickly becoming the Land of the Stupid.
While you’re at it,dump the Van Jones BS Book.
I was told by a store manager at fred meyers a part of kroger i believe they will end all gun sales by May. They are no longer receiving any stock of guns or ammo as on now. He told me this on 03/14/2018
Everybody just calm down. I see allegations in this article. I don’t see facts. I’m not going to judge until I see facts. Let’s remember that Kroger told “Moms Demand Action” politely to F*** off. Safeway, on the other hand caved and made their stores gun free zones. Kroger will continue to get my business.
why continue to give them business? They refuse to sell long guns to those who are under 21. If an 18 year old is an adult and can move out of their parents house don’t they have the right to protect themselves just like any other adult? I stopped going to these stores right after that announcement. If it was state law maybe that would be different but it isn’t. Not here anyways.
It’s a fact that the Smith’s in my area are not “gun-free” zones at this time. I guess I can just wait this out a little and see what happens, but if the gun magazines disappear, that’ll be enough for me to shop elsewhere.
update, Fred Meyer has now announced that it will end all sales of firearms and ammunition. Not sure about other Krogers owned stores.
http://q13fox.com/2018/03/16/fred-meyer-announces-it-is-phasing-out-the-sale-of-all-firearms-and-ammo/
Typical ceo talk out your mouth and ass at the same time!
It is very possible that I will remove Kroger from my shopping list. First they removed our senior discount then built new stores and raised prices. It has become my convenience store because of these actions and now even more so. I think its about time to find another store. Three strikes and you are OUT!
Just watch H.G. Well’s, “The Time Machine”
PAPER MAGAZINES ARE BARELY AROUND ANY MORE. THIS IS JUST A FEEL GOOD ANTI- 2ND AMENDMENT ACT. THANK GO NO KROGERS IN MY AREA. WONDER HOW MANY BULLETS THE MAGAZINES…lol
DO YOU HAVE STORES THAT ARE OWNED BY KROGERS? HERE WE HAVE FRED MEYERS STORES.
Okay I clicked on the article thinking that I was being jipped since none of my supermarkets carry gun magazines only to find out they meant the paper kind.
great, now kroger did pull a dicks!
I noticed the absence when at my local Fry’s(Kroger entity in AZ) yesterday, seemed to leave half the magazine shelves empty. They did not however remove the titles of: “Survival”(had a firearm on cover, so hypocrisy), and “Cowboys and Indians”(speaks for itself as to the hypocrisy there). They also didn’t pull toy guns of any sort from there shelves, would that not make a bigger impact? Kids don’t grab gun magazines, they grab boob magazines and toy guns.
Will they be removing Hollywood/movie magazines that glorify gun violence too?
But Kroger has no problem with the pornographic covers of many womens or movie magazines. Are book burnings next. The madness of Americans and the companies that pander to them is indicative of a collapsing society. Kroger is not in my region but Dicks is. I hope they both go bankrupt
I thought this was the other kind of gun magazines! You know, like clips (but not clips, because the difference is SO IMPORTANT and the language is not evolving and the meanings of the words WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER CHANGE, kind of like how the meaning of the word “will” has never, ever ever changed).
I notice that Field and Stream and Outdoor Life are not on the chopping block. Most of those titles just sound like propaganda for tinkertoy-15s. It is in poor taste having racks of periodicals featuring AR-15s on their covers every time one is involved with a big, highly published shooting which seems to be more than monthly these days and Kroger is just exercising discretion in keeping their customers from being, pardon the expression, triggered by celebrations of these weapons of war before the bodies are even cold.
So you blame those “nasty black rifles” for the actions of deranged individuals.
What happens when those rifles are gone and deranged individuals use whatever weapon it is that you like?
Will you call for those to be banned as well?
You leftists have quite limited reasoning skills. Let’s ban guns so that we can keep crackpots running around loose, rather than do something about the crackpots.
Those crack pots are usually “fellow travelers “ with the Democrats
Why stop with ARs, Blue Dog troll? Why not confiscate semi-automatic pistols, auto-loader shotguns, mini-14s, 10-22s, etc? And, while you’re at it, better go for knives, pressure cookers, fertilizers, and semi-trucks. You got a lot of work to do, so why don’t you start by coming to my house tonight, about 3am, and knock on my door with some confiscation papers…OK?
Sorry, they got fertilizer. Those damned farmers, you know how they are. It’s a hell of a lot of paperwork now to grow a bumper crop of corn. Making it harder on legal users of ammonium nitrate while doing approximately DICK to curb those who are hell-bent on destruction. Business as usual for the sexual intellectual, leftist guerillas who insist on MORE of the same thing that has already failed us all on innumerable levels: Government controls. Government absolutely destroys everything it touches, including American freedom. I don’t want more government. Screw government. Too bad we can no longer sew the seeds of personal responsibility for our individual and societal conditions. They fall on fallow ground these days. Shit.
Well it was just a matter of time before the uneducated troll reared its ugly head. Blue falcon, er, I mean dog, perhaps you should educate yourself a little more on the difference between an AR15 and the latest antigun slogan lies, ie the “weapons of war”. Two completely different types of firearms. Just another liberal pushing their agenda onto the unknowing, SMH..
Top Shelf? Be in good company with Oui, PB, Hustler . . . .
These are perilous times indeed.
I don’t buy or read any of those magazines, just like I don’t have a firearm that could be fitted with a bumpstock, punishing the free press just seems dumb ass and harms people that had no involvement, really pathetic. If these big corporations really wanted to help victims or make a statement or show solidarity they could have scholarships, grants, hiring preference,etc.Now that they have jumped on the bandwagon of meaningless gestures I’ll shop elsewhere for awhile and buy a gun magazine.