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

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

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

A key moment in the history of the AR-15 rifle — an event that led to the gun’s ultimate adoption by the U.S. military — came on July 4,...

During intense negotiations in 1994 about the large crime package and an attached assault-weapons ban, then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware...

The prestigious Kirkus Reviews has chosen American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 as on of the top ten nonfiction books of 2023....

Cameron McWhirter, co-author of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, will be joining a panel Sunday, Nov. 12, at 12:30 p.m. with...

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

Cameron McWhirter, co-author of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, will join prominent author/journalist/professor Jeff Sharlet...

Panio Gianopoulous over at the Next Big Idea Club asked McWhirter and Elinson to present five key insights from American Gun: The True...

Abené Clayton interviewed Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, authors of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, about the gun and...

Cameron McWhirter, co-author of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, spoke with well-known Cleveland personality Jimmy Malone on...

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

Thanks to Ben Tumin, host of the excellent podcast "Skipped History" (See recent NYTimes profile) for having McWhirter and Elinson on to...