Washoe County Library System

The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. None is as controversial. It is largely due to the NRA that the U.S. gun policy differs so extremely - some would say so tragically - from that of every other developed nation. But, as Frank Smyth shows, the NRA has evolved from an organization concerned above all with marksmanship to one that resists all attempts to restrict guns in any...

Focuses on the childhood of the famous American sharpshooter.

Traces the history of gun control and the right to bear arms, from the Second Amendment to the landmark 2008 court case that invalidated a ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., discussing the cultural divide between gun rights advocates and gun control lobbyists.

A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.

Reeling from the death of the woman he loves, Jax Teller steers SAMCRO full-throttle down the hell-bound road to revenge, allowing nothing to stand in his way. The streets of Charming run red with blood as shifting alliances and fatal mistakes lead to chaos, betrayal, and all-out murder. The body count soars, and dark secrets give way to darker truths, until the only question remaining is who will live...and who will die.

"By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights. At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history to provide some surprising, illuminating answers. The Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias...

When a young upstart who gunned down an unarmed man comes looking for Trent, his friends tell him to leave, but he stays to do what a man has to do.