American Gun "essential" reading says Technology and Science magazine.

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

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

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

On Dec. 4, 1961, the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency approved the purchase of a thousand AR-15 rifles from Colt to...

Thanks to John Siuntres, host of the comics and culture podcast "Word Balloon," for having Cameron McWhirter on the show to talk about...

This photograph from 1972 shows a woman Vietnamese Communist fighter carrying a U.S.-made M16, the military select-fire version of the...

The Guardian calls American Gun “an indispensable read.” Author and journalist Charles Kaiser writes: "Written by two fine Wall Street...

Historian/author Paul Barrett sat down with McWhirter and Elinson for C-Span's BookTV to talk about American Gun: The History of the...

On the "Apple News In Conversation" podcast, host Shumita Basu sat down in a New York studio to talk with Cameron McWhirter and Zusha...

Mike Spies, a senior staff writer at the Trace reviewed American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 for the NYTBR. He declared the book "a...

Thanks to the hundreds of people who listened to McWhirter and Elinson's first public discussion about American Gun at the City Opera...

The bullet casing on the left is for a .223-caliber round fired from an AR-15 in South Georgia a few years ago. The casing on the right...

A major part of the saga of the AR-15 is the story of how the military version of the rifle, the M16, performed in Vietnam. After early...