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Cameron McWhirter

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“Come and Take It”: How the Aftermath of Sandy Hook Led to More AR-15s Being Sold Than Ever Before

Chris Waltz was appalled. He felt Democrats were using the Sandy Hook tragedy to tell him he wasn’t responsible enough to own an AR-15.

by Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson via Literary Hub on October 2, 2023

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson

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A photograph of an AR-15 rifle, a pistol, and a knife in camoflage print, as well as bullets and a pair of gloves.

Give Your Mom a Gun

America’s favorite gun.

by Geoff Mann via London Review of Books on March 1, 2024

AR-15 with the American flag attatched.

The Curse of the AR-15

How the gun became a cultural icon—and unmade America.

by Colin Dickey via The New Republic on October 23, 2023

AR-15 trigger, with banner of AR-15 on Confederate monument behind

How the AR-15 Became an American Brand

The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.

by Emily Witt via The New Yorker on September 27, 2023

Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

Hundreds of Black Deaths in 1919 are Being Remembered

America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened.

by Jesse J. Holland via AP News on July 24, 2019

One Hundred Years Ago, a Four-Day Race Riot Engulfed Washingon D.C.

Rumors ran wild as white mobs assaulted black residents who in turn fought back, refusing to be intimidated.

by Patrick Sauer via Smithsonian on July 17, 2019

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