“Bring me that blue box," Jerry L. Falwell Jr. instructs his son Trey. The blue box is gingerly delivered, placed atop a wooden shelf, and carefully popped open. The gun inside, resting atop a gray egg-crate inlay, is huge. Among the arsenal assembled at this outdoor shooting range, which is just up the road from Liberty University’s central campus, the gun in the case stands out. Mr. Falwell, president of Liberty, received it as a Christmas gift from his wife’s parents. It’s something Dirty Harry surely would have carried — if only a handgun so powerful had been available in his day.

December 17, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education