The New Yorker Festival | Armed Citizens: The Fight Over Guns in America
Where: Directors Guild of America New York Theater
110 W. 57th St.
212-258-0811 Price: $45
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With Pam Bosley and Jonathan Mossberg. Moderated by Evan Osnos.
Pam Bosley is the co-founder of Purpose Over Pain and the violence-prevention manager at The ARK of St. Sabina, in Chicago. She became an advocate for tighter gun-control legislation after losing her teen-age son Terrell to a shooting in 2006, and works to support the families of other victims of gun violence.
Jonathan Mossberg is the president and C.E.O. of iGun Technology Corp. The iGun is billed as the “world’s first personalized firearm,” and the company is working to miniaturize their smart-gun technology from a shotgun into a handgun. Mossberg was previously a vice-president of the family-owned firearms manufacturing company O. F. Mossberg & Sons.
Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. He won the 2014 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” parts of which first appeared in the magazine. He has written extensively on the 2016 Presidential election, including “The Fearful and the Frustrated,” about far-right supporters of Donald Trump, which appeared in the August 31, 2015, issue of the magazine. ue of the magazine.