{"id":1038,"date":"2016-03-27T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/?page_id=1038"},"modified":"2017-01-30T20:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:48:41","slug":"heckler-kochs-new-compact-45","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/?page_id=1038","title":{"rendered":"Heckler & Koch’s New Compact .45"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the article that led to my no longer writing for Gun World<\/em> magazine, though my own choice. As mentioned on the \u201cWelcome to Self-Defense-Handguns.com\u201d Home page, Jan Libourel had just retired, I was looking forward to working with the new editor, he seemed like a nice guy. Okay, he obviously new very little about guns, his prior experience was actually writing articles for sailing magazines, but I figured he\u2019d learn. Then this article was published. Compare it to the Original, Totally Honest Version, located right above it on the Free Articles<\/em> page. You\u2019ll note that in the original version, I\u2019m not going out of my way to savage the gun, but I\u2019m not going out of my way to be less than totally honest either. When there\u2019s a problem, I mention it. This is called \u201cintegrity\u201d – I mention this only because, in short order, we will see the new editor completely lacked this quality.<\/p>\n

So, read the original version, read the published version. You will note that in the published version, anything that is well-balanced, i.e. anything that could be considered negative, has been deleted. Not only deleted, replaced with lies. The standout here is the comment that the HK sights use the same paint found \u201con high-end dive watches and aviation instruments\u201d which is not only a lie, it\u2019s completely ridiculous. A dive watch on which the display faded into blackness inside a minute after being removed from bright light would be worse than useless.<\/p>\n

I had held off submitting my next article to this guy until the first one was published. Just in case. After seeing what he\u2019d done to this one, I was glad I\u2019d delayed submitting anything else. He sent me an email, \u201cHey, looking forward to getting the new article,\u201d my reply was, \u201cWell, let\u2019s discuss what was done to the one that was just published before I send you anything else.\u201d I bent over backwards to be polite, in reply I got a LONG, incredibly rude email. One thing he said was, \u201cI called up HK and asked them about what you said about the sight paint, and they said it wasn\u2019t true.\u201d Let\u2019s pause for a moment to think about that. If he had known anything about guns, he would have know the HK sight paint has very little light holding properties. Even people who own HKs, even people who love HKs, laugh about this fact.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I cannot help but think he was lying about that whole \u201cI asked HK\u201d thing. Another thing he said, re changing the photo caption on the sight paint was, \u201cWe\u2019ve outsourced our layout to India, and they changed that, not me.\u201d I told that to Jan, his comment was, \u201cThat\u2019s absurd. The outsourcing to India happened while I was still there, about two years before I retired, and we never had a single problem with them. I can\u2019t imagine they would do that. The truth is that he changed it himself, and he doesn\u2019t want to admit it, so he\u2019s lying about that. What a despicable character!\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, I did ask why he hadn\u2019t run the photos of Ken Hackathorn and Larry Vickers I\u2019d supplied with the article. I mentioned it was a coup for me to get interviews with two men so well-known, and well-respected, within the firearms training community, to have them both supply photos for the article, and it was a real black eye for me when those photos weren\u2019t run with the piece. His reply, \u201cThe photos weren\u2019t high enough quality.\u201d I invite you to look at those photos, which were in fact used in The Original, Totally Honest Version that Blue Press<\/em> editor Mark Pixler was nice enough to lay out for me, and form your own opinion on their quality.<\/p>\n

Of course, the story has a happy ending. Two years later, what\u2019sizname quit his job as Gun World<\/em> editor. I suspect that \u201cquit\u201d was another lie, and it was just cover for \u201cYou can quit before we fire you.\u201d His comment was, \u201cI got tired of being micromanaged.\u201d Well, sport, maybe if you weren\u2019t completely incompent, and lacking in gun knowledge, and bereft of honor, your bosses wouldn\u2019t have felt the need to micromanage you.<\/p>\n

18 years of working with Jan Libourel, never had a problem. One month of working with this loser, and I swore I\u2019d never do it again. But that\u2019s the difference in the level of performance between one of the great gun magazine editors ever, and what you get when dealing with an untrustworthy, lying fool.<\/p>\n

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