Summary: Bob Lee Swagger is a master marksman who has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military. He has become disillusioned with his government, but finds that the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president. A shadowy government operative begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. Ultimately he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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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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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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Rodengen, Jeffrey L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Write Stuff Enterprises 2002

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023

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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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Cook, Philip J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014

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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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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016

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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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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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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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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2022

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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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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020

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McMurtry, Larry.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2005

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Kyle, Chris

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013

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Spinner, Stephanie.

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002

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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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2007

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McMurtry, Larry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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Summary: The greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever known. Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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