The AR-15 Story

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 28, 2023
Cameron McWhirter, an Atlanta-based national reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the co-author (with Zusha Elinson) of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), and Zusha Elinson, Wall Street Journal reporter covering America’s gun culture and industry, tell the story of America's gun culture through that of the AR-15, a weapon that went from use in Vietnam to leisure and mass shootings.

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