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Give your mom a gun

Geoff Mann: America’s Favourite Gun, 7 March 2024

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson.
Farrar, Straus, 473 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 0 374 10385 9Show More
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America 
by Andrew C. McKevitt.
North Carolina, 319 pp., £24.95, November 2023, 978 1 4696 7724 8Show More
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“... in Armalite’s product line-up.Stoner is the reluctant protagonist of Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson’s American Gun, a history of the AR-15. In their account, he comes across as the personification of America’s understanding of its postwar legacy: an unreflective armed individualism which, run through the meat grinder of seventy years of ...”

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