American Gun: The True Story of the Ar-15 McWhirter Cameron
American Gun: The True Story of the Ar-15 McWhirter Cameron American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America's most controversial weapon.In the 1950s, an obsessive…
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American Gun: The True Story of the Ar-15 McWhirter Cameron
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America's most controversial weapon.In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century.In American Gun, the veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson track the AR-15 from inception to ubiquity. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II.
To answer this question, McWhirter and Elinson follow Stoner--the American Kalashnikov--as he struggled mightily to win support for his invention, which How did the same gun represent the essence of freedom to millions of Americans and the essence of evil to millions more?
The American Story