Getting Guns Right: an interview with Stephen Hunter

[shooter521]

For those who don't know, Hunter is the author of books like "Point of Impact" (basis for the movie "Shooter") as well as several gun-related non-fiction works. He is also a film critic. Interview is worth a read.

He Got It All Right

 

[Pami]

That's an awesome interview. I haven't read any of his books as I tend to stick to dragons and magic and such, but I might have to pick a couple of his up.

Thanks for the link!

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

From the link in the OP:

And as we all know, with the exception of the pieces that I write, the definition of a gun story in a newspaper is a piece of writing with a big stupid technical mistake in it. And that continues to this day.

Awesome quote.

But so much of it is so stupid, and so driven by ignorance. One of the things I wanted them to see was that gun people weren’t a tribe of troglodytes and Neanderthals but are in fact human beings just like themselves. And that the gun world (and even NRA) wasn’t a monolithic battalion of marching robots. But there were disputes within as well as outside of gun culture:

He's my new hero.


I am definitely adding his books to my next order. Thank you Shooter for adding this post.
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