The Twisted History—and Future—of Gun Control

The Twisted History—and Future—of Gun Control

The Twisted History—and Future—of Gun Control

Rick Perlstein joins Bryce Covert and George Zornick to explore the serpentine shifts and strange bedfellows of gun control politics.

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Rick Perlstein joins Bryce Covert and George Zornick to explore the serpentine shifts and strange bedfellows of gun control politics. 

What do the Black Panthers have to do with the modern Republican Party? How have Democrats sunk their own ship on gun control? Could a progressive caucus spring up in the NRA? In the latest installment of Nation Conversations, the Nation‘s Rick Perlstein joins DC correspondent George Zornick and blogger Bryce Covert to hash out the past and future of gun control. For more, read Perlstein’s recent two-part post on the NRA (part 1, part 2) at TheNation.com.

—James Cersonsky

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