June 14, 2021:
An interview with Andrew van Wagner on gun history and culture, marriage, editing and writing.
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The Indispensibles Podcast
May 19, 2021:
Listen to my conversation about life and editing with the brilliant rainmaker and thinker Bruce Tulgan:
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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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History News Network
May 22, 2016:
A Connecticut judge has ruled that the families of the Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting can gather facts to develop a civil action against Remington, the parent company for the Bushmaster AR-15 used by shooter Adam Lanza. If their case goes to trial, it would be a landmark challenge to the 2005 legislation that shields the gun industry from civil liability.
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Politico America
May 15, 2016:
“The fight over gun control is often cast politically as a conflict between government and the interests of private citizens and companies. “She hates us, and she’s coming for every bit of our freedom,” National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre told the Conservative Political Action Conference in March about Hillary Clinton’s gun control position.
It wasn’t always like this. In fact, it was the government that first incubated the American gun industry, and the icons of the American gun culture—including Winchester and Colt—thereafter developed a commercial market out of what had started as the public-private business of providing for the common defense. This public-private separation is at the root of our modern gun politics.”
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