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University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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On its initial publication in 1998, this title drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. More than a decade later, it continues to play a key role in ongoing arguments over gun-control laws. Despite all the attacks by gun-control advocates, no one has ever been able to refute the author's conclusion that more guns mean less crime. Relying on the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever conducted on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws,...
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The searing, unforgettable story of a young girl's resilience, by the award-winning author of Prayers for the Stolen. Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Despite their hardships, mother...
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Crown
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Traces the story of the American gun market as reflected by an Austrian six-cylinder revolver, tracing how it has become a weapon of choice on both sides of the law, in the entertainment industry, and among Second Amendment enthusiasts.
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Gun Digest Books, an imprint of Caribou Media Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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''For more than 30 years, the Standard Catalog of Firearms has been the gun industry's No. 1 illustrated guide to gun values. This extensively revamped edition offers more photos, prices, and guns, with hundreds of new entries of rifles, shotguns and handguns for virtually every gun made or sold since the early 1800s. Even if you have previous editions, this newest edition now features current values from a wide range of experts, editors and auction...
26) The border lords
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English
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ATF agent Sean Ozburn is deep undercover supporting the sicarios of the Baja Cartel when he suddenly goes completely dark, his only communications being the haunting digital videos he sends to his desperately worried wife, Seliah. Charlie Hood must determine if Oz is simply chasing demons deeper undercover than anyone has ever gone, or whether his friend has suffered a permanent break with his mission and his moral compass.
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English
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"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...
28) Gun digest 2024
Publisher
Gun Digest Books, an imprint of Caribou Media
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"THE 78TH EDITION OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST GUN BOOK! For nearly eight decades, Gun Digest has served as the trusted source for up-to-date, detailed, and exciting information about firearms. Gun Digest is the finest collection of great stories, historical reflections, in-depth reviews, and new-product roundups available anywhere. If it has anything to do with firearms and shooting sports, you’ll find it here: more than 600 pages covering rifles,...
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dana Loesch argues that "gun control" regulations throughout history have been used to keep minority populations under control. She also contends that current arguments in favor of gun control are primarily based on emotions and fear.
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Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Her analysis, erudite and unrelenting, exposes blind spots not just among conservatives, but, crucially, among liberals as well. . . . As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence, Loaded is an indispensable book."--Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation. In...
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Bantam Books
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©1983.
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English
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Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his concern. Then King Mabry showed up. Although Tom didn't like the way he looked at Janice, he could see that Mabry made Barker uneasy....
33) Shot
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three lives are changed drastically as a result of one gunshot being fired on a street in Los Angeles.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"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 evidencesurrounding 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...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 40
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English
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A young man has inherited a ranch—and a whole lot of trouble—in this Western in the New York Times bestselling series.
In Colorado Territory, Smoke Jensen is trying to live at peace with the big, beautiful world around him. Then a tinhorn named Puddle enters his valley—and unleashes a hellstorm of a range war.
Then the shooting started
Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a twenty-one-year-old shipping clerk—from...
In Colorado Territory, Smoke Jensen is trying to live at peace with the big, beautiful world around him. Then a tinhorn named Puddle enters his valley—and unleashes a hellstorm of a range war.
Then the shooting started
Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a twenty-one-year-old shipping clerk—from...
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