@article{1479903,
      author = {Melzer, Scott, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479903},
      title = {Gun Crusaders : The NRA's Culture War /},
      abstract = {Nothing conjures up images of the American frontier and a  pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps view of freedom and  independence quite like guns. Gun Crusaders is a  fascinating inside look at how the four-million member  National Rifle Association and its committed members come  to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the  path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism.  Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials, meetings,  leader speeches, and unique in-depth interviews with NRA  members, Gun Crusaders focuses on how the NRA constructs  and perceives threats to gun rights as one more attack in a  broad liberal cultural war. Scott Melzer shows that the NRA  promotes a nostalgic vision of frontier masculinity,  whereby gun rights defenders are seen as patriots and  freedom fighters, defending not the freedom of religion,  but the religion of individual rights and freedoms.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814759509.001.0001},
      recid = {1479903},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}