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Name: Lethal Passage
Author: Erik Larson

Erik Larson investigates the journey of the Cobray M‑11/9 from its creation and marketing as a battlefield weapon to the illegal acquisition by sixteen‑year‑old Nicholas Elliot, who used it to kill a teacher and wound another at a Virginia high school in 2007. By tracing the gun’s history, Larson exposes regulatory gaps, economic forces, and cultural attitudes that facilitate the movement of handguns into the hands of young offenders, contributing to the broader crisis of gun violence in the United States.

First publish date: 1994

Genre: Politics & Government/Public Policy

Authors: Erik Larson

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