摄影师KyleCassidy从2004年开始好奇他人购买枪械的理由,为了研究,他自己也买了枪,经常进出费城的一家枪店,接下来的三年,他走到不同的地区拍摄和家访持枪者/家庭,就只问一个简单问题:「为什么你要买枪?」然后纪录拍摄,并在2007年出版了《Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes 》这本书。
"To me, a rifle is not for sporting or hunting, it is an instrument of freedom. It guarantees that I cannot be coerced, that I have free will, and that I am a free man."