Here’s armed America-a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Tx, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they’re collecting classic weapons, practicing hidden bring, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many People in america love guns-which horrifies and fascinates a great many other Us citizens, and far of all of those other world. This exciting, sometimes raucous publication explores from the inside the American love affair with about Gun Guys: A Street Trip firearms.

Dan Baum is both a lifelong weapon man and a Jewish Democrat who was raised in suburban NJ feeling just like a “child of the bitter divorce with allegiance to both parents.” In Weapon Guys he grabs his licensed hidden handgun and strikes the road to meet some of the 40 percent of Americans who own weapons. We satisfy Rick Ector, a black Detroit autoworker who purchases a Smith & Wesson after struggling an armed robbery-then quits his work to preach the gospel of equipped self-defense, especially towards the resistant dark community; Jeremy and Marcey Parker, a young, successful Kentucky couple whose idea of an enchanting getaway is the Blue Ridge Hill 3-Gun Championship in Bowling Green; and Aaron Zelman, mind of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Baum also moves to New Orleans, where he enters the globe of a man disabled by a bullet, also to Chicago to interview a killer. Along the way, he requires us to gun shows, gun stores, and shooting runs trying to figure out why so many of us like these things and why they inspire such passions.

In the tradition of Confederates in the Attic and Among the Thugs, Baum provides an entire world to life. Written equally for enthusiastic shooters and those who would hardly ever contact a firearm, Gun Guys is greater than a travelogue. It gives a fresh assessment of the heated politics surrounding guns, one that will concern and inform people on all sides of the issue. This can be the 1st book that will go beyond weapon politics to illuminate the visceral appeal of guns-an primary, perceptive, and amazingly funny journey through American gun culture.