Description |
xxiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-210) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: a routine shooting, why should we care about homemade small arms? -- Printing Pandora's box: how the 4th industrial revolution transforms security -- Teaching iron to fly: artisanal, industrial, and neoartisanal gunmaking -- The global gun: how DIY small arms are manufactured and used around the world -- The substitution effect: will criminals and terrorists make their own guns? -- Scanning darkly: how weapons screening can detect ghost guns (but fail to stop terrorists) -- Land of the gun: politics and practicalities of DIY firearms in America -- "You'd be better off brain-scanning people": how the industrial devolution complicates weapon control -- Enter the tech vigilantes: surveillance capitalism and "corporate gun control" -- Uninventing the wheel: weapons and crime control in a postindustrial age. |
Summary |
"With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing it"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Firearms -- Design and construction.
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Gun control -- United States.
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Firearms and crime. (OCoLC)fst00925627
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Gun control. (OCoLC)fst00949382
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Other Form: |
Online version: Tallman, Mark A. Ghost guns Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2020] 9781440865657 (DLC) 2020006847 |
ISBN |
9781440865640 (hardcover) |
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1440865647 (hardcover) |
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9781440865657 electronic book |
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