The Slate article from which this was "adapted" may be a better link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/01/21/kyle_cassidy_asked_americans_why_they_own_gun

The Slate article from which this was "adapted" may be a better link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/01/21/kyle_cassidy_asked_americans_why_they_own_guns_photos.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/01/21/kyle_cassidy_as... The Q&A at the bottom of the "Travel Diary" excerpt on the author's web site gives a lot of interesting background about the project: Was there anything that surprised you while you were doing this project, or did it pan out mostly as you expected? I was surprised by how many of the people I photographed didn't fit the stereotype in my head. I realized when I started this that I had only a very abstract idea of who gun owners were. And when you said the words there was a vague, beat-up pickup truck with a guy in a dirty baseball hat, and a Bush/Cheney sticker on the the back image floating around my head and while I definitely met people like that, and they weren't rare, it was anything but homogeneous – the people I met were really very diverse I was surprised at the number of people who owned guns but hadn't fired them for years, and surprised by the number of John Kerry stickers on the cars in the driveways of people I photographed. I thought, going into this, that it was going to be something of a monoculture -- but it really wasn't. http://www.armedamerica.org/extras/amazon-diary/index.html http://www.armedamerica.org/extras/amazon-diary/index.html