. Away for a short hiatus, it’s now back to give you the latest in news and opinion about firearms (at least from my standpoint).
You need to know a little of the history of TLM to put things in the proper context. I have been on the Board of Directors of a local gun club since 2012. I originally joined the club a couple years earlier, but approached the Board in 2012 to redesign and rejuvenate their website. Within a year, in addition to the website, I was also working as the Secretary of the Board, monthly newsletter editor, and membership chair. To this day, I am still Secretary and edit the monthly newsletter.
The Loaded Mag grew out of my activity with the newsletter. For several years, I included much of the content you see in TLM in the club’s newsletter each month, sending out 18-24 pages regularly. Politics of a different kind became apparent at the club, and it became more difficult to include my content in the club’s publication, so I published a small club newsletter (7-10 pages) AND a separate issue of TLM (16-20 pages), the newsletters currently on this site. We are a non-profit club and there was a fear we were appearing “too political” because of my newsletter content, and might lose our non-profit status.
TLM was founded out of that “split” in missions. The lack of newsletters here the past several months is due to the Strategic Plan I was compiling and writing for the club the last part of 2021, eventually being approved by the Board in December. I just didn’t have the energy to do everything, so TLM suffered.
That’s over, and TLM is back! You may see a flurry of activity for a while because I’ve been collecting new content since last Summer, and now need to get it online. The one question I haven’t answered for myself yet is when, and if, 1) the TLM newsletter will resume, and; 2) what format it will be in.
I hope you like what you see, and read, and look forward to more as time goes along.