The Washington Examiner reviewed Gun Barons:

“Bainbridge’s volume is more than a history of the origins of America’s gun industry, it’s a history of 19th century America … [A] lively, enjoyable account of the men who created modern guns, the modern arms industry, and, in their own way, modern America.”

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John talked about the inventors who started Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington, and the role their firearms played in U.S. westward expansion and the Civil War on C-SPAN.

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John was a guest on History Unplugged Podcast
Listen to “The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States” on Spreaker.

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John was featured on The Jefferson Exchange in “The men who made America and guns inseparable” (Listen)

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The Wall Street Journal reviewed Gun Barons on May 18, 2022 (online) and May 19, 2022 (print), calling the book “a well-told chronicle” of “the rise of America’s greatest gunmakers.”