A decorated Marine veteran attacked a North Carolina waterfront bar with a short-barrel AR, killing three people and injuring five in...

A Louisiana commercial fisherman was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison recently after pleading guilty to possessing seven...

In late August 2025, a disturbed man armed with an AR-15 and hundreds of rounds of ammunition started shooting at a mother with a...

The shooter who attacked a morning, back-to-school Mass at a Catholic school in Minnesota used an AR-15 to fire into the church. He also...

Ukraine is replacing its old, Soviet-designed Kalashnikov rifles with a new, domestically-produced version of an AR-15, called the UAR-15...

St. Louis lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey recently regained possession of their AR-15 rifle. Five years ago, the firearm was seized...

The shooter who attacked a Park Avenue office building and killed four people used a commercial, semiautomatic version of an M4 rifle, a...

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

Today is paperback publication day for American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. Go buy a copy! Thanks to everyone who spoke to us or...

South Vietnamese army rangers and special forces secretly tested the rifle in combat in early 1962. The program for the U.S. ally was...

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,...