I was interested in this story but kept getting pulled out of it because of the persistent preachy anti-gun commentary. I don't own a gun and likely never will, but I found it ham-fisted that anyone bad in this story was a "gun-enthusiast" and that having guns was consistently listed as a negative quality. I don't generally have a problem with bias in stories, but it was brought up enough in various contexts that it felt like I was reading a political commentary as much as a mystery.