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Summary: A nation of cowards -- Self-defense : a primary civil right -- The Second Amendment : America's first freedom) -- Anti-gun (Statement of Sarah Brady -- Violence in America : a public health emergency -- Firearms and assault : "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"--Loaded guns in the home : analysis of a national random survey of gun owners -- Political snipers : how the NRA exploited...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 GUN

Summary: Frontline investigates how the NRA uses its unrivaled political power to stop gun regulation in America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2015

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GUN

Rodengen, Jeffrey L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Stuff Enterprises 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.31 ROD

Summary: Even today, almost 150 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, unexpected secrets and little-known stories continue to emerge from Civil War history. In the cavalry charge at Mine Creek in Kansas, it took only 30 minutes for 2,800 Union troops to defeat an enemy force more than double in size, and yet, few people have heard of it. The same can be said of a Confederate raid on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008

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Auster, Paul

Summary: "Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 AUS

Summary: Even today, almost 150 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, unexpected secrets and little-known stories continue to emerge from Civil War history. In the cavalry charge at Mine Creek in Kansas, it took only 30 minutes for 2,800 Union troops to defeat an enemy force more than double in size, and yet, few people have heard of it. The same can be said of a Confederate raid on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC

Spitzer, Robert J.

Summary: In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British were coming. They have had great success in conflating unfettered gun ownership with the Founding Fathers,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SPI

Summary: Provides descriptions, prices, and photographs of small firearms. The definitive source for making informed decisions on used firearms purchases. Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of the most popular manufacturers, including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Remington, Savage, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and many more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 GUN

Summary: Provides descriptions, prices, and photographs of small firearms. The definitive source for making informed decisions on used firearms purchases. Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of the most popular manufacturers, including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Remington, Savage, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and many more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 GUN

Cook, Philip J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 COO

Claiborne, Shane

Summary: "Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 CLA

Bainbridge, John

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 BAI

Summary: This look at how gun violence affects us today, how we got there and what we can do to reduce it features contributions from over a dozen experts and policymakers in the field.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 TOO

Lott, John R.

Summary: Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and anecdotal evidence. In this direct challenge to conventional wisdom, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.73 LOT

Summary: Provides descriptions, prices, and photographs of small firearms. The definitive source for making informed decisions on used firearms purchases. Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of the most popular manufacturers, including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Remington, Savage, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and many more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 683.4 GUN

Powell, Joshua L.

Summary: A former member of the NRA discusses the decades-long incompetence at the organization, exposing the intentional toxic messaging in the fight against gun control and detailing how the discord it created allowed the organization to secure the Trump presidency.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.4 POW

Busse, Ryan

Summary: "Ryan Busse has traveled a long, circuitous path along the American gun journey. As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist-all things that the firearms industry was built on-he rose to the highest ranks of the rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar firearms industry. But rampant fear-mongering, racism, hardline conservative politics, massive profits from semi-automatic weapons sales,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSSE, RYAN BUS

McMurtry, Larry.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 McMur

Hemenway, David

Summary: On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 HEM

Spinner, Stephanie.

Summary: An account of the life and exploits of the sharpshooting entertainer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002

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Gorenstein, Nathan

Summary: "The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning-a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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Wills, Charles.

Summary: Annie Oakley first picked up a gun at age eight and by age 22 was performing sharpshooting acts. She went on to travel the world and became America's first female superstar.

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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OAK

Macy, Sue.

Summary: A photographic biography of Annie Oakley, discussing her early life, her prowess with a gun, her stint with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and her enduring image in movies, books, television shows, and plays.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OAK

McMurtry, Larry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MCM

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