Historian Pamela Haag provides a comprehensive overview of guns in America, focusing on the evolution of the gun industry and arguing that business practicalities of the past shaped today's gun culture.

Many believe that the U.S. has always had a gun culture, but this is not the case; Americans were taught to love guns by the companies making money from selling them.

Pamela Haag is an award-winning writer and historian. In The Gunning of America, she casts an expert eye over America's gun legacy, breaking down the mythology around firearms and tracing their hallowed status back to the industrialists who created it.

From how the mechanization of gun production shifted mindsets to the cultivation of a civilian market and the 'gun crank,' Haag tracks the evolution of gun culture.

Ultimately, Haag reveals that many of our preconceptions about American gun culture are built on a legacy fabricated for financial gain.