CHEAP … BUT NOT REALLY
As an editor, there are certain words I tiptoe around very carefully. I’m not talking about profanity here, but rather those often-used words where my intended meaning—or the dictionary definition, for that matter—is dramatically different than what the word means when run through the lens of public perception. Seemingly mundane, everyday words. A word like “cheap.” For this issue, nearly every gun featured is “cheap,” at least as defined by the formal definition of low in price; worth more than its cost. But to a lot people, cheap provokes connotations of poor quality … and that certainly does not apply to the guns featured herein. For example, Richard Mann dissects the SDS Imports 1911 A1 Tanker, no-frills Turkish pistol that costs about $400. It’s not much to look at—at least when compared to…