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Monterey Park: Who Made the Gun?

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By Matthew Dessem
| Popula Verified
FOR ALL THE horrible monotony of another mass shooting in the United States—with the usual cycle of violence, grief, and inaction—last weekend’s massacre in Monterey Park, California, did have one distinctive detail. Instead of yet another “AR-15-style rifle,” the Monterey Park gunman reportedly did his killing with an SWD Cobray M11/9, a weapon from an entirely different era in American gun violence.
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University of Virginia: Who Made the Gun?

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By Matthew Dessem
| Popula Verified
AS THE UNITED States limps from one mass shooting to the next, media continue to cover the country’s gun violence as though it were a force of nature: a plague or a flood or even a tsunami. But America’s gun violence is not a natural disaster. It’s the entirely predictable result of deliberate decisions made by people and organizations who sell deadly weapons in huge numbers.
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Through a Loophole by Brute Force: The Case That Ended Trial By Combat

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By Matthew Dessem
| Popula Verified
THE LEGAL LOOPHOLE may not be one of humanity’s greatest inventions, but it’s one of the most satisfying, which is why it features in so many fictional stories.
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