Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun
A. J. Somerset, "Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun"
English | ISBN: 1771960280 | 2015 | 352 pages | EPUB | 988 KB
English | ISBN: 1771960280 | 2015 | 352 pages | EPUB | 988 KB
After a fifteen-year hiatus from the world of guns, journalist, sports shooter, and former soldier A.J. Somerset no longer fit in with other firearm enthusiasts. Theirs was a culture much different than the one he remembered: a culture more radical, less tolerant, and more immovable in its beliefs, “as if [each] gun had come with a free, bonus ideological Family Pack [of political tenets], a ready-made identity.” To find the origins of this surprising shift, Somerset began mapping the cultural history of guns and gun ownership in North America.
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