October 19, 2022:
“While Americans stayed “home together” in 2020, depleting flour reserves in pursuit of the perfect sourdough starter, another commodity sold out and skyrocketed to record sales. Guns.”
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The Inside History of How Guns Are Marketed and Sold in America
August 19, 2022:
“This has coincided with a rise in mass shootings in which dozens of people are killed or wounded in a matter of minutes—usually carried out by young men with AR-15-style rifles that they purchased legally.”
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Newsweek
June 15, 2022:
Gun Marketing Is Being Held Accountable. Don’t Ignore Sponsoring Kidfluencers | Opinion
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Is US Gun-Culture More Important Than You Could’ve Imagined?
June 14, 2021:
An interview with Andrew van Wagner on gun history and culture, marriage, editing and writing.
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The Widow and the Winchester
February 1, 2019:
“The Widow and the Winchester”
When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium reportedly told Sarah that she would be haunted by the victims of that rifle unless she used her fortune to build a house, and never stop building. That’s exactly what she did.
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Connecticut Explored
Winter 2016:
“How Connecticut-Made Guns Won The West”
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Thom Hartmann Show
May 14, 2016: Tonight’s Rumble discusses how Bernie, the crazy Socialist is enslaving our children, Obama supporting making Election Day a national holiday, and how there are now more homeless kids and parents in D.C. than homeless single adults. Thom discusses the business and the making of American gun culture with historian Pamela Haag, author of the new book “The Gunning of America.” Read full article…
Take Aim
A Two-Fold Gun Violence and Safety Event
I was delighted to participate in artist Bayete Ross Smith’s two-part, interactive gun event in NYC.
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The Times Literary Supplement
July 6, 2016:
“How guns became an object of desire.”
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Time Magazine
June 16, 2016:
“The permeable boundary between military and commercial firearms has a long history in our gun culture. After the Orlando shooting, many Americans are questioning why assault-style weapons are commercially available in the United States.”
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