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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"We live in the Age of the Gun. Around the globe, firearms are ubiquitous and define countless lives; in some places, it's even easier to get a gun than a glass of clean water. In others, it's legal to carry concealed firearms into bars and schools. In [this book], Iain Overton embarks on a ... journey to understand how these weapons have become an integral part of twenty-first century life, beyond the economics of supply and demand"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xv, 302 p. : ill. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "American Gun", the deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a SEAL. Chris Kyle uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun.
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
384 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daughter who left home years earlier, stands by helplessly and wonders if he has failed his child again....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for commonsense gun reform. But as he peeled back evidence surrounding the racially charged mass shooting, a shocking question emerged: Did the public health approach he had championed for years have it all wrong? Long at the forefront of a movement advocating...
10) The two-gun kid
Author
Series
Gunsmith volume 326
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward...
12) Wrath of man
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man must move hundreds of millions of dollars for an armored truck company in Los Angeles.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A lifelong NRA supporter presents a raucous tour of gun culture that celebrates its stores, festivals, and colorful enthusiasts while offering insight into the power and appeal of guns in America.
Here is armed America, land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they are collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15...
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation. In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the myths of gun culture to expose the true historical origins of the Second Amendment, revealing the racial undercurrents connecting the earliest Anglo settlers with contemporary gun proliferation, modern-day policing, and the...
15) Big guns
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
vii, 240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords--disabled from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona--and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership and more responsible gun control laws, despite being gun owners and staunch supporters of the Second Amendment themselves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces hunting and weapon safety, ethics, and sportsmanship; and discusses potential hazards, common mistakes, and accidents that may happen while hunting, and how to prepare for a safe and successful hunt.
18) Gun crimes
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
19) Winchester 1887
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On the American frontier, every gun tells a story. A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own--from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 267 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms--and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers--it is also the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric...