Introduction

Bernard E. Harcourt

PART I The Great American Gun Debates

A. PERSPECTIVES

Continuity and Change in the American Gun Debate

Franklin E. Zimring

The Tyranny of Econometrics and the Circumspection of Liberalism: Two Problems with the Gun Debate

Dan M. Kahan

Equalizers: The Cult of the Colt in American Culture

Richard Slotkin

``Hell no, you can't jack that fool. He stays strapped. He's strapped all the time'': Talking about Guns at an All-Boy Correctional Facility in Tucson, Arizona

Bernard E. Harcourt

B. THE SECOND AMENDMENT

The Historians' Counterattack: Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Second Amendment

Sanford Levinson

What Does the Second Amendment Restrict? A Collective-Rights Analysis

Carl Bogus

Moral Principle and the Second Amendment

Christopher L. Eisgruber

PART II Policy Interventions in the Gun Arena

A. GUN TRACING

New Law Enforcement Uses for Comprehensive Firearms Trace Data

Philip J. Cook

Anthony A. Braga

B. GUN-ORIENTED POLICING AND COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS

Policing Guns: Order Maintenance and Crime Control in New York

Jeffrey A. Fagan

Garth Davies

Should We Have Faith in the Churches? The Ten-Point Coalition's Effect on Boston's Youth Violence

Jenny Berrien

Christopher Winship

Guns, Drugs, and Profiling: Ways to Target Guns and Minimize Racial Profiling

Jerome H. Skolnick

Abigail Caplovitz

C. THE BRADY APPROACH

The Effects of the Brady Act on Gun Violence

Philip J. Cook

Jens Ludwig

Gun Shows and Gun Controls

James B. Jacobs

D. FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT OF GUN LAWS

Project Exile and the Allocation of Federal Law Enforcement Authority

Daniel C. Richman

The Unintended Consequences of Enhancing Gun Penalties

Sara Sun Beale

E. CIVIL LITIGATION AGAINST GUN MANUFACTURERS

The Cities Take the Initiative: Public Nuisance Lawsuits against Handgun Manufacturers

David Kairys

Tort Law and Criminal Behavior (Guns)

Mark Geistfeld

Guns and Burglars

David B. Kopel

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index