American gun : the true story of the AR-15 /
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. He 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...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A note about names
- Prologue: ten minutes, 1057 bullets
- The boy who like explosions
- Men against fire
- The rifleman
- Hollywood moon shot
- Springfield's rifle
- The space-age gun is born
- The bureaucracy strikes back
- Hunting big game
- The spy who saved stoner's rifle
- 'Brave soldiers and the M16'
- 'Tragedy and betrayal'
- 'Borders on criminal negligence'
- The sporter
- Big guns come in
- Bush ban
- Three senators
- The end of compromise
- Bad boys
- A precise request
- AR-15 takes off
- Here come the hedge funds
- The man card
- 'I'm a killer I guess'
- 'You woudn't understand'
- Molon labe
- Trump slump
- Burning boots
- Lockdown nation
- Come and take it nation
- Beyond the talking points
- 'Are any residents safe in this country anywhere?'
- Valerie's road home
- Postscript: what would stoner do?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.