Though readers will learn much about both guns and history in the late Chris Kyle's American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms, that isn't really the point or the delight of the book.

My contacts at the Liberal Gun Club and African American gun clubs tell me they are seeing interest in their firearms training classes grow dramatically. Although newsworthy, as a sociologist who ...

The paranoia in hurricane country, with its undercurrent of violence, is just the latest sign of a new wrinkle in American gun ownership, something scholars have started describing as gun culture ...