Product Description: Covering the history of firearms and gun control in America, this two-volume work presents original documents and helps readers understand these documents in relation to the social and political context in which they were written...read more

Product Description: This three-volume set examines various approaches to firearms, including constitutional and legal issues, public health and criminal justice concerns, and perspectives on personal safety and self-defense.• Considers a wide variety of policy recommendations, from advocating greater firearm ownership and carrying among private citizens to suggestions for further limitations on gun acquisition and ownership• Features historical background on the development of the present role that firearms play in American society• Examines recent trends in the ownership of various types of firearms• Challenges the adequacy of background checks and granting of firearm access• Compares gun-related accidents and firearm policy among the state...read more

A political, cultural, and psychological history of America's gun culture addresses key issues in the modern debate on gun ownership and control, profiling today's conservative ideology that places gun ownership at the center of the nation's democratic ideals while tracing such contributors as the NRA, the gun lobby, and the Republican party. Reprint.

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Examines American attitudes about gun control, how those attitudes reflect the gun control movement, and the future of gun control in the United States (view table of contents)

Reveals the many connections the powerful gun-lobbying group has in Washington, exposing how the group works, the death threats that have been sent to pro-gun control advocates, the NRA's involvement in arming felons, and more.

Examines the historical establishment and significance of the gun as a part of American life, proceeding from the role of firearms in the settlement of the New World to gun-control movements of the 1960s.