Westerners have always been deeply in love with their
firearms, and gun-shop owners like Ryan Horsley are determined to
make sure that nothing comes between them
Magazine
August 6, 2007
Westerners have always been deeply in love with their firearms, and gun-shop owners like Ryan Horsley are determined to make sure that nothing comes between them
Feature
Sidebar
The West’s gun laws are an unbelievable hodgepodge, but in general the region is very friendly toward firearms
Ryan Horsley talks about Red's Trading Post: its history,
his troubles with the ATF, and why he doesn't sell machine
guns
Editor's Note
With this issue on guns in the West, High Country News
hopes to encourage people across the political spectrum to talk
about sane gun policy rather than indulge in rabid rhetorical
gunplay
Uncommon Westerners
Greg Rock, co-founder of the Green Car Company in Seattle,
is determined to help the world drive into a greener and more
sustainable future
Essays
Melissa Hart’s relationship with an owl transforms
her life
Book Reviews
Jon R. Luoma examines old-growth forests through the eyes
of the scientists who study them in The Hidden Forest: The
Biography of an Ecosystem
In Uncertain Pilgrims, novelist Lenore Carroll follows a
troubled young woman who is retracing the Santa Fe Trail
Heard Around the West
Stonefridge has fallen; passports for Hutterites;
8-year-old terrorists?; railroad safety, sort of; stinky orchids;
bare bikers busted in Seattle
Dear Friends
Party with Mark Udall in Snowmass; visitors; a cone by any
other name
News
The last free-flowing river in the desert Southwest,
Arizona’s San Pedro, is threatened by an expanding Fort
Huachuca and a controversial congressman
When it comes to fund raising, Mitt Romney is the
West’s favorite presidential candidate, as is demonstrated by
a series of charts
Two Weeks in the West
The continuing saga of the white-tailed prairie dog vs.
Julie MacDonald; sage grouse in trouble; Westerners are still
burning – and drowning; statistics about air conditioning and
a long hot summer
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