THE GUN.

Reporter's Notebook

C.J. Chivers. Senior writer, The New York Times. Contributor, Esquire. Former Marine. Author of THE GUN, a social history of the AK-47 that examines the origins and proliferation of automatic arms, and their influence on war.

What happens here?
Field reporting on conflict, tactics, insurgency and counterinsurgency, the arms trade and human rights. Behind scenes glimpses of work. Front-line forensics, battlefield paleontology, appreciative nods, mini-profiles, explanatory riffs. Pix. Tweets. Updates. Links.

Warning: Some photographs are technical. A few are graphic. There are reasons. Every time.

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“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but…life obliges them over and over again to give birth to...

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NEVER FORGET.

Kent State University, May 4, 1970

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

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Equal Pay for Women - Appealing to the Board
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