One Nation Under Guns by Dominic Erdozain

A concise cultural and historical study that traces how American attitudes toward firearms were constructed over centuries through law, marketing, mythmaking and racialized violence; it argues that gun culture is not inevitable but produced by frontier mythology, industry promotion, shifts in organizations like the NRA, and the intertwining of firearms with masculinity, property and national identity, processes that reshaped legal norms and political power and help explain contemporary conflicts over ownership, regulation and public violence.

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