How the internet is reshaping the gun-rights landscape.

With flawlessly manicured dark-red fingernails, @Kayotickat holds the steel frame of a single-action Browning 1911-22 pistol. It’s an archaic gun with a tobacco-colored grip, yet it looks vogue in her hand. The close-up photo, posted on Instagram, gets its charge from a traditionally phallic pose (a gripped pistol) feminized by

@Kayotickat’s dangerous flirtation, like a femme fatale handling a cold piece of twentieth-century engineering.

This juxtaposition is the future of gun advertising for Americans raised on the internet — those millions who don’t read gun magazines and never visit a newspaper stand (if they even know where to find one). Instagram is where you’ll also find a photo showing an attractive young... Read More