Nieman Reports, the magazine for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University , chose Cameron McWhirter's first-person...

In the latest issue of Nieman Reports, Cameron McWhirter writes about why he and co-author Zusha Elinson, both U.S. news reporters for...

Crowds of eager, thoughtful readers, fascinating authors working in a wide range of genres, and wonderful weather -- all unfolding in...

Looking forward to this weekend's Tucson Festival of Books! On Saturday morning (March 9), at 10 a.m., I'll join a panel w/ Jennifer...

It's a stunning downfall for LaPierre, 74 years old, who helmed the powerful National Rifle Association for decades. In the New York...

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 has been chosen as a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. McWhirter and Elinson are...

Chris Holmes, chair of the English department at Ithaca College and host of the popular "Burned By Books" podcast, had Zusha Elinson and...

A person entered the Texas church of well-known television preacher Joel Osteen and opened fire with an AR-15 on Sunday afternoon, police...

Thanks to Pretty Good Books, a great bookstore in beautiful building (an old church and former funeral home) in downtown LaGrange,...

Thanks to Doug Wells and Roger Goldman, hosts of KPCW's "Mountain Money" in Utah, for interviewing McWhirter about American Gun: The True...

Cameron McWhirter, co-author of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, will talk Feb. 10 at 1 p.m. at Pretty Good Books in LaGrange,...

Thanks to Bob Nebel, host of the Atlanta-based "Tales from The Corners" podcast, for speaking with Cameron McWhirter about American Gun:...

The U.S. Justice Department report on the Uvalde shooting documented a host of failures by local law enforcement and others to the...

The U.S. Justice Department is seeking the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket...

A man in a town near Akron, Ohio, was arrested recently by federal agents, who found 55 untraceable AR-15s in his home. He was selling...

On January 7, 1959, the firearms maker Colt acquired manufacturing and sublicensing rights to the AR-15 and AR-10 rifle's gas...

#OTD The Jan. 6th riot took place at the nation's Capitol in 2021. As described in American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, the AR-15...

Larry Rifkin, host of the long-running "America Trends" podcast, spoke at length with Cameron McWhirter, co-author of American Gun: The...

The gunman who committed the mass shooting at Prague’s Charles University used an AR-style rifle — the second mass shooting in Europe...

As the US ramped up its involvement in the Vietnam War, the Pentagon ordered tens of thousands of military versions of AR-15s, renamed...