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"For many Americans, guns seem to be a fundamental part of the American experience-and always have been." Grand in scope, rigorous in research, and elegant in presenting the formative years of our country, Armed America traces the winding historical trail of United States citizens' passion for firearms. Author and historian Clayton E. Cramer goes back to the source, unearthing first-hand accounts from the colonial times, through the Revolutionary...

In Guns the Right Way: Introducing Kids to Firearm Safety and Shooting you'll find: step-by-step instruction in the proper and safe process for introducing kids to firearms, guidance that takes into account the fact that all children are different, and more than 100 images to illustrate important points and concepts.

"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 enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes...

"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez...

"Gun sales have not just surged in the past two years-they have skyrocketed, breaking all-time records from March to July 2020. In this book, Jennifer Carlson examines the three dire crises in the United States in 2020-the pandemic, police murders and subsequent uprisings for racial justice, and the 2020 elections-to examine how Americans have turned to a well-worn tool of security in American life: the gun. While the notion that Americans would turn...

"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, and McCarthyesque policing have driven Busse to do something...

The word insubordinate, defiant of authority, or disobedient to orders, is the antithesis of what Loren Culp is. This book pulls back the curtain and gives you an inside look at the life of one who grew up in rural Washington State and has made a way where, at times, there was no way. Insubordinate? We think not... but we'll let you decide. A U.S. Army veteran, small business owner, and retired police chief, Loren Culp took his stand to defend the...

No issue currently divides Americans more than their constitutional right to bear arms versus the merits of gun control. This special captures the role that guns play in so many people's lives by placing fixed-rig cameras inside a small, family-run gun shop in Michigan. Avoiding simple stereotypes and well-worn clichés, as well as understanding the everyday challenges of running a business in a controversial industry, the film explores and reflects...

"When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for commonsense gun reform. But as he peeled back evidence surrounding the racially charged mass shooting, a shocking question emerged: Did the public health approach he had championed for years have it all wrong? Long at the forefront of a movement advocating...