The Ex-President and the Gun Lobby

from The History Hour · host BBC World Service

This week, how former US President George Bush Senior took on the all-powerful National Rifle Association; the murder of the campaigning Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin; and how a Soviet submarine got stuck on a Swedish rock during the Cold War. Plus, the Cockney pilot who became known as the "King of Lampedusa" during World War Two.(Photo: President George Bush Senior. Credit: Bachrach/Getty Images)

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