RT Book
T1 How America got its guns: a history of the gun violence crisis
A1 Briggs, William L. 1949-
LA English
PP Albuquerque
PB University of New Mexico Press
YR 2017
ED First edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1626515417
AB "In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future."--
CN HV7436
SN 9780826358134
K1 United States
K1 gun control : History : United States
K1 Firearms ownership : History : United States
K1 Violent crimes : History : United States
K1 Firearms : Law and legislation : United States
K1 LAW / Constitutional
K1 HISTORY / Military / Weapons
K1 Constitution (United States)
K1 Firearms
K1 Firearms ownership
K1 Law and legislation
K1 gun control
K1 History
K1 Law
K1 Violent crimes
K1 Military
K1 Constitutional
K1 Weapons
K1 Constitution
K1 USA : Schusswaffe : Waffenbesitz : Waffenrecht : Kontrolle : Gesetzgebung : Todesfall : Geschichte 2007-2017