![]() ![]() I had previously associated them with the sort of people who might translate Proust. I’m talking chapbooks.Ĭhapbooks are slim volumes that can often be found for sale at coffeehouse poetry readings or crammed into the bookshelves of nerds like me. No, not the thick tomes of military history or firearms manuals. Since I struggle to tell a Howitzer from a Ronco Rotisserie Cooker it wasn’t a surprise that I was drawn to the more ephemeral wares at the firearms extravaganza, in particular, the book sale. That’s not my type of journalistic research. Had I been so interested, my mostly clean criminal record (See: Loitering conviction, 1998) wouldn’t have stopped me from stuffing an AK-47 into the back of my Honda Civic. ![]() The last thing I expected to find was interesting reading material.īut first let’s confirm something you might be wondering: Yes, just about any adult with a functional trigger finger can buy a serious gun, even nerds like me. ![]() Recently, I was on assignment to write about America’s biggest weapons showcase: The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Who goes to the gun show looking for literature? ![]()
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