Gun Guys: A Road Trip Audiobook (Free)

Here is armed America-a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Tx, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they’re collecting antique weapons, practicing hidden carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their regional range, many Americans like guns-which horrifies and fascinates many other People in america, and much of the rest of the world. This lively, sometimes raucous reserve explores from the inside the American love affair with about Gun Guys: A Road Trip firearms.

Dan Baum is both a lifelong gun man and a Jewish Democrat who was raised in suburban New Jersey feeling just like a “kid of a bitter divorce with allegiance to both parents.” In Gun Men he grabs his certified concealed handgun and strikes the road to satisfy a number of the 40 percent of People in america who own guns. We fulfill Rick Ector, a black Detroit autoworker who buys a Smith & Wesson after struggling an armed robbery-then quits his work to preach the gospel of equipped self-defense, especially to the resistant dark community; Jeremy and Marcey Parker, a, successful Kentucky couple whose idea of an enchanting getaway is the Blue Ridge Mountain 3-Gun Championship in Bowling Green; and Aaron Zelman, head of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. Baum also travels to New Orleans, where he enters the world of a man disabled with a bullet, and to Chicago to interview a killer. Along the way, he takes us to weapon shows, gun shops, and shooting ranges racking your brains on why so many of us like these things and just why they inspire such passions.

In the tradition of Confederates in the Attic and Among the Thugs, Baum provides an entire world to life. Written equally for passionate shooters and the ones who would under no circumstances touch a firearm, Weapon Guys is more than a travelogue. It gives a fresh assessment of the heated politics surrounding guns, one which will concern and inform people on all edges of the issue. This can be the 1st book that goes beyond weapon politics to illuminate the visceral appeal of guns-an first, perceptive, and remarkably funny trip through American gun culture.