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FeedRobert "Pete" Petersen (1926-2007)
By Douglas Tate
Robert Einar Petersen, the gun col- lector who founded Guns & Ammo magazine and helped shape America's gun culture, died March 23 in Santa Monica, California, after a brief illness with cancer. Petersen, who lived in Beverly Hills, was 80. "He only discovered he had neuroendocrine cancer at the end of January," said Ken Elliott, a lifelong friend and co-founder with Petersen of the Bismuth Cartridge Co. "He endured a month of suffering." Petersen, the chairman of Petersen Publishing, started Hot Rod Magazine in 1948 (when he was 21), a time when rodding was considered unsavory and restricted to time trials on dry desert lake beds.
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