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In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century.In "American Gun," the veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson track the AR-15 from inception to ubiquity.

"Bloodbath Nation" by Paul Auster traces centuries of America’s use and abuse of guns, from the violent displacement of the native population to the forced enslavement of millions, to the bitter divide between embattled gun control and anti-gun control camps that has developed over the past 50 years and the mass shootings that dominate the news today. Auster's text is interwoven with Spencer Ostrander’s haunting photographs of the sites of more than thirty mass shootings in all parts of the country.

"Misfire" (Dutton) is the result of a four-year investigation by Mak who scoured thousands of pages of never-before-publicized documents and cultivated dozens of confidential sources inside the NRA’s orbit to paint a vivid picture of the gun group’s rampant corruption and slow decline, marking a sea change in the battle over gun rights and control in America.

Robert Jackson Bennett's "Vigilance" is a dark science fiction action parable from an America that has permanently surrendered to gun violence.The United…

Former Long Island Congressman Steve Israel has traded in a political career for one as an author – but, the politics have not been discarded completely –…

A replica handgun was discovered at a Pittsfield high school.Pittsfield Police say a student had reported seeing another student with a handgun at Taconic…

The Second Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias made up of all (white) adult men—who…

Police in Colchester, Vermont, say a student was caught with a gun at the local high school.Authorities say the boy was carrying the loaded, small-caliber…

Cobleskill Police apprehended a teenage boy Tuesday night who was found allegedly waving a gun at customers inside a Walmart store. Police determined the…

Transportation Security Administration officials confiscated a loaded gun from a passenger’s carry on baggage at the Plattsburgh International Airport…