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Sep 2023
39m 50s

Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

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Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’s scary. It’s ugly. It’s at the center of the gun control debate. But what exactly makes it worse than other guns? 

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