Chicks with Guns, by Lindsay McCrum, is "a playful yet perturbing visual essay on the statistic that some 20 million women in America own guns," to quote the review on the Time website.  My favorite is Jenevieve, of San Antonio, Texas, standing in a Victorian parlor in her wedding dress, an antique single-shot percussion dueling pistol by her side. Howard Chua-Eoan, News Director of TIME and TIME.com, is shocked that 20 million American women own guns. What a sheltered life the man must lead, innocent as he must be of American history: Has he never heard of Annie Oakley, who was not the only frontierswoman proficient in the handling of arms? The backdrops are gorgeous, the compositions good, and the story compelling. I have only one nit to pick. Samantha, of Livingston, Montana, has her finger on the trigger of her AR-15. Tsk tsk. When The Blue Press, the monthly catalog of Dillon Precision, makers of fine reloading gear, published an issue years ago with a model on the cover...(Read Full Post)