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How the US government created and coddled the gun industry

  • Written by Brian DeLay, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
imageA U.S. soldier fires a Colt M16 in Vietnam in 1967.U.S. Army

After Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers on Oct. 1, many people responded with calls for more gun control to help prevent mass shootings and the routine violence ravaging U.S. neighborhoods.

But besides a rare consensus on restricting the availability of so-called bump...

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