Pin-up Girl for the Second Amendment

Pictured above holding the AK-47 is Carolyn Chute, from a list of book reviews from the The American Conservative's Freddy Gray — Back of the Book.

Bill Kauffman introduced me to her in his great book, Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists, which I reviewed — Steal This Book! — and said the following:

The fifth chapter profiles another contemporary writer, the most fascinating person we meet in the book, Carolyn Chute, perhaps the only "American novelist whose spouse is illiterate." In addition to being a once-best-selling lady writer, Mrs. Chute is the foundress and leader of The 2nd Maine Militia, comprised of "guys in camo, hippies, bikers, old ladies, Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Marxists, Libertarians, John Birchers."