| Description |
394 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-377) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Origins and precedents -- 2. The colonial record -- 3. To the second amendment -- 4. Militias, duels, and gun keeping -- 5. A gun culture emerges -- 6. Reconstruction, cheap guns, and the Wild West -- 7. The National Rifle Association -- 8. Urban control movements -- 9. Gun-roaring twenties -- 10. Direct Federal controls -- 11. Guns flourish, opposition rises -- 12. Control Act of 1968 -- 13. Control groups on the rise -- 14. Gun lobby glory years -- 15. A wholly owned NRA subsidiary? -- 16. The struggle nationalized -- 17. The Brady Act -- 18. School shootings and gun shows -- 19. Clinton v. the NRA -- 20. Summing up. |
| Subject |
Gun control -- United States.
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Violent crimes -- United States.
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Firearms ownership -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
1555534864 cloth alkaline paper |
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