Revolutionary War reenactors in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Before Robert Spitzer grew up to be an expert on American gun policy, he watched a lot of Westerns. He was raised on stories of an America built by rugged men with six shooters on their hips … even though that image was mostly made up. Spitzer has written five books about gun policy in the U.S., and he says that in the actual Wild West, gun laws were strict.

“ They didn’t want people walking around their new town with a gun strapped to their hip,” he said. “So you’d have to […]

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