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How the US government created and coddled the gun industry

The Civil War supercharged America's burgeoning gun industry

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Police run to cover at the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip (Photo: AP/PTI)

Brian DeLay | The Conversation

After Stephen Paddock opened fire on Las Vegas concertgoers on Oct. 1, many people responded with calls for more gun control to help prevent mass shootings and the routine violence ravaging U.S. neighborhoods.

But besides a rare consensus on restricting the availability of so-called bump stocks, which Paddock used to enable his dozen semi-automatic rifles to fire like machine guns, it’s unclear if anything meaningful will come of it.

If advocates for reform despair after such a tragedy,