Some gun-rights groups are calling for Columbia University to rescind the Bancroft Prize it gave last year to a historian after an investigation found he "willingly misrepresented the evidence" in his work. Michael Bellesiles announced his resignation from Emory University in Atlanta after an academic panel said his book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, showed "evidence of falsification," "egregious misrepresentation" and "exaggeration of data."
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