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Classic issues of Guns Magazine are available free from the publisher: http://gunsmagazine.com/classic-guns-magazine-editions/

These are full color pdf's with embedded OCR so they are searchable!

You can suck up all the issues using this script, if you are running OSX or Linux:

#!/bin/ksh

for year in 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65
do
   for month in 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
   do
      wget http://www.gunsmagazine.com/19${year}issues/G${month}$year.pdf
   done
done