Firearms

Good Guys with Guns

By James Pogue,

Why the left should arm itself

Who Has the Guns?

By Carl Bakal,

The genuine sportsman’s voice is seldom heard in the outcry against gun-control laws. The dominant note is the shrill voice of the superpatriot. His sentiments were once well synthesized by…

How to Make Your Own AR-15

By Dan Baum, on June 17, 2016

A gunman kills 49 people with an AR-15 assault rifle at an Orlando nightclub; Dan Baum investigates whether gun-control laws could ever stop the weapon from proliferating Read More

Happiness is a Warm Biscuit

From a glossary of terms used by three rival East Harlem street gangs, compiled by prosecutors for the April indictments of sixty-three gang members. Between October 2009 and March 2013,…

How to Make Your Own AR-15

By Dan Baum,

Gun owners have long been the hypochondriacs of American politics. Over the past twenty years, the gun-rights movement has won just about every battle it has fought; states have passed…

Blood Sport

By Thomas Frank,

For a time in December, it looked as though the nation was finally ready to take on the gun culture. Perhaps you recall the moment: twenty grade-schoolers, along with their…

Happiness Is a Worn Gun

By Dan Baum,

In the 1943 noir thriller The Fallen Sparrow, John Garfield asks the police inspector whether his permit to carry a gun is still valid. “Good for a year,” the cop…

Bearing arms

By Benjamin Busch,

Untitled recoil

By Greg Stimac,

Loaded

By Garret Keizer,

The line is hot

By Steve Featherstone,

From the Archive

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Good Guys with Guns

Who Has the Guns?

How to Make Your Own AR-15

Happiness is a Warm Biscuit

How to Make Your Own AR-15

Blood Sport

Happiness Is a Worn Gun

Bearing arms

Untitled recoil

Loaded

The line is hot

December 2005