The lives of guns: an introduction -- Part I. The political life of guns -- Mobile sovereigns: agency panic and the feeling of gun ownership -- Radical printings: future gunsmithing and the politics of self-manufacturing firearms -- Counting up AR-15s: the subject of assault rifles and the assault rifle as subject -- Part II. The social life of guns -- The thriving life of radicalized weaponry: violence and sonic capacities from the drone to the gun -- Dum-dum bullets: constructing and deconstructing "the human" -- The death of the unarmed assailant: on racial fears, ambiguous movement, and the vulnerability of armed police -- Part III. The private life of guns -- The first rule of gunfighting is have a gun: technologies of concealed carry in gun culture 2.0 -- How to use the bathroom with a gun and other techniques of the armed body.
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