Straight Shot: Guns in America
The US has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. How did this come to be? Was America’s “gun culture” present from the very beginning? BackStory's History Guys examine the history of guns in America.
Infantryman training in Ft Knox, Kentucky, 1942. US Office of War Information.
On this episode, the History Guys look at who has had access to guns in the U.S., and what those guns have meant to the people who have owned them. They also consider the importance of guns at the time the Second Amendment was drafted, and explore the central role government has played in the dissemination of firearms to citizens. And they pay a visit to a 21st century version of the armories of the past: a gun show.
That's BackStory with "Straight Shot: Guns in America" Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 6pm.
