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Lock, Stock, and Barrel - The Origins of American Gun Culture (Hardcover)
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Lock, Stock, and Barrel - The Origins of American Gun Culture (Hardcover)
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This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture
was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun
ownership and use have been a core part of American society since
our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American
gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments.
They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent
from early American history because guns of all types, and
especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these
revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first
mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to
sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them. However, as
proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early
America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to
American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel:
The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun
manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies
and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry
helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and
high wages for workers.
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