While I’m at it with the media, I thought I would post comments on American gun culture I shared recently with a journalist from at the French daily newspaper Le Monde. The comments offer a summarize of some of my overarching views of American gun culture, for what they are worth. They are what I … Continue reading
I have to take a break from my series of posts on the civilian gun training industry to address some blowback I received for comments I made that were printed in a story about road rage and guns in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Back in February (5 months ago), I had a fairly lengthy and … Continue reading
Years of toiling away at my craft has finally paid off. My work on guns has lifted me to a level of fame that I could not have imagined 5 years ago. Evidence: My daughter saw a story in VICE about gun violence that quotes fairly extensively from an interview I gave to the author. … Continue reading
Visiting my daughter in Wilmington, North Carolina recently, a local “lifetsyle” magazine, Cape Fear Living, caught my eye. Many cities have these to promote local business and civic affairs. Look at the cover below and it will be obvious what drew my attention. Look at those GUNS! Flipping through the magazine I was actually surprised … Continue reading
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Reading year after year of The American Rifleman, this well-known passage from the Tanakh ring ever so true. Two examples below are similar to others I have found, … Continue reading
Plugging along with my project of analyzing the changing content of advertising in gun magazines over the past century as a measure of change in American gun culture. Every old issue I examine is remarkable in one way or another. I have mentioned “The Dope Bag” previously (an issue from 1927 in which a husband … Continue reading
In a much longer recent entry I questioned the common narrative that the National Rifle Association was (largely? mostly? considerably?) a-political prior to the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati. Continuing my stroll through 100 years of the NRA’s flagship publication, The American Rifleman, I came across still more evidence that the fundamental political emphasis of the … Continue reading
