Making a Killing
Evan Osnos on the politics and business of the concealed-carry phenomenon, and the success of the gunmaker Smith & Wesson.
The Kel-Tec P-3AT—five inches long, half a pound, designed for "concealed carry"—had been in his pocket for a year and a half. He'd never fired it. Then, on a Philadelphia sidewalk after a drunken argument, everything changed in seconds.