Author: Charles Winthrop Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Ian McCollum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733424608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: John Walter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873492027
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The definitive illustrated guide to the world's centerfire and rimfire rifles.

Author: Charles Winthrop Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rifles
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Author: Andrew Biggio
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684511399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero’s journey of a 28-year-old U.S. Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived the costliest war of all -- WWII veterans. It began when Biggio bought a 1945 M1 Garand Rifle, the most common rifle used in WWII, to honor his great uncle, a U.S. Army soldier who died on the hills of the Italian countryside. When Biggio showed the gun to his neighbor, WWII veteran Corporal Joseph Drago, it unlocked memories Drago had kept unspoken for 50 years. On the spur of the moment, Biggio asked Drago to sign the rifle. Thus began this Marine’s mission to find as many WWII veterans as he could, get their signatures on the rifle, and document their stories. For two years, Biggio traveled across the country to interview America’s last-living WWII veterans. Each time he put the M1 Garand Rifle in their hands, their eyes lit up with memories triggered by holding the weapon that had been with them every step of the war. With each visit and every story told to Biggio, the veterans signed their names to the rifle. 96 signatures now cover that rifle, each a reminder of the price of war and the courage of our soldiers.

Author: Charles Winthrop Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: New York : Viking
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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A novel about Sir John Franklin's 19th-century Arctic expedition and about modern Inuit life.

Author: Ryan Busse
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541768728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point. As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist–all things that the firearms industry was built on–Ryan Busse chased a childhood dream and built a successful career selling millions of firearms for one of America’s most popular gun companies. But blinded by the promise of massive profits, the gun industry abandoned its self-imposed decency in favor of hardline conservatism and McCarthyesque internal policing, sowing irreparable division in our politics and society. That drove Busse to do something few other gun executives have done: he's ending his 30-year career in the industry to show us how and why we got here. Gunfight is an insider’s call-out of a wild, secretive, and critically important industry. It shows us how America's gun industry shifted from prioritizing safety and ethics to one that is addicted to fear, conspiracy, intolerance, and secrecy. It recounts Busse's personal transformation and shows how authoritarianism spreads in the guise of freedom, how voicing one's conscience becomes an act of treason in a culture that demands sameness and loyalty. Gunfight offers a valuable perspective as the nation struggles to choose between armed violence or healing.

Author: Charles Winthrop Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375981781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: Charles Winthrop 1868 Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781362307938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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