Still searching for some basis for Bakals elevation to the status of a Government expert on firearms matters. the magazine sent a staffer to interview him. Results of that interview are published here. Meanwhile. documentation assembled independent of the interview gives a fairly clear picture of the author and his war against guns. Bakal. not quite 50. is a native New Yorker whose parents emigrated before World War I from Klshinev. capital of the then Czarist Russian province of Bessarabia. Except for periods overseas. he has been essentially a Manhattan apartment dweller with a summer place on Fire Island. As a student at the College of the City of New York. he took a premed course but soon preferred photography and writing.
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