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No arms maker in history has captured the imagination in the way Winchester has: rifles, shotguns, and ammunition famous the world over for craftsmanship, design capability and performance, historical tradition, and sheer romance. And it is the Winchester that is known as "the gun that won the West." Now, in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Winchester marque, R.L. Wilson -- America's most distinguished writer and expert in the firearms...
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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 loopholes and waged a stealth campaign against the Democrats)...
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"How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles. Basing his arguments on sound and prodigious research, Bellesiles makes it clear that gun ownership was the exception - even on the frontier - until the age of industrialization. In Colonial America the average...
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"From Colonial times Americans have been conditioned to regard arms-bearing by private citizens as a right rather than as a privilege subject to strict government control. Only in the twentieth century, with the emergence of an urban society, have the old attitudes been challenged and the debate opened over the 'right' to bear arms: first, by the restrictive legislation of the 1930s, and more recently, by the events of the [1960s] which resulted in...
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In 1991 Nancy Floyd bought her first handgun. Soon she was participating in Ladies Day at her local shooting range and reading Women & Guns magazine. In 1993 she began interviewing and photographing women who were fellow gun owners. In 1997 she started researching "gun women" from the past to see how they were represented in the popular imagination. Now she has brought her work together in a book, filled with remarkable photographs and candid first-person...
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