Guns in American society : an encyclopedia of history, politics, culture, and the law / Jaclyn Schildkraut and Gregg Lee Carter, editors.
| Other author | Carter, Gregg Lee, 1951- editor. |
| Other author | Schildkraut, Jaclyn, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Third edition. |
| Publication | Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2023] |
| Description | 1 online resource (3 volumes (lxxii, 1,091 pages)) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Accidents -- Acoustic gunshot detection technologies -- Acquisition of guns -- African Americans and gun violence -- AK-47 -- Alcohol and gun violence -- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) -- American Bar Association (ABA) -- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) -- American Jewish Congress (AJC) -- American Medical Association (AMA) -- American Revolution -- Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) -- Ammunition, Regulation of -- Ammunition, Types of -- Amnesty programs -- Armed teacher policies -- Armor-piercing ammunition -- Arms trade treaty -- Articles of Confederation and gun control -- Assault weapons -- Assault weapons ban, renewal attempts of -- Assault weapons ban of 1994 -- Association of firearm and tool mark examiners (AFTE) -- Aurora Theater shooting -- Automatic weapons laws -- Availability of guns, effects on crime -- Average-Joe thesis -- Background checks -- Ballistic identification system -- Bartley-Fox Carrying Law -- Baton Rouge police officers shooting -- Beard, Michael K. -- Biden, Joseph, Jr. -- Black codes -- Black lives matter -- Black market for firearms -- Bloomberg, Michael -- Body armor -- Boston Gun Project (BGP) -- Bowling for Columbine -- Boxer, Barbara -- Brady, James S. -- Brady, Sarah Kemp -- Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Bill) -- Brady Legal -- Brady : united against gun violence -- Branch Davidians -- Brown, Michael, shooting of -- Brown Bess -- Browning, John Moses -- Bullet button -- Bulletproof consumer products -- Bump stocks -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) -- Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) -- Bush, George H. W. -- Bush, George W. -- Campus carry -- Cartridges -- Castle doctrine -- Categories of people prohibited from owning firearms -- Cease Fire, Inc. -- Center for Gun Policy and Research -- Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -- Charleston church shooting Chicago, IL -- Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws -- Children's Defense Fund (CDF) -- Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) -- Civil War and small arms -- Clinton, William J. -- Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) -- Collectors -- Colleges and gun violence -- Colt, Samuel -- Columbine High School shooting -- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) -- Concealed weapons laws -- Congressional voting patterns on gun control -- Consumer product safety laws -- Cook, Philip J. -- Copycat shootings -- CornerShot guns -- Crime and gun use -- Crime Prevention Research Center -- Dallas police officers ambush -- DC Project -- Defensive gun use (DGU) -- Democratic Party and gun control -- Demonization of guns -- Derringers -- DeVos, Betsy -- Dingell, John D. -- District of Columbia v. Heller -- Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO) -- Drive-by shootings -- Dueling -- Dum-Dum Bullet -- Eddie Eagle -- Elections and gun control -- Enforcement of gun control laws -- Ergonomics and firearms design -- Everytown for gun safety -- Extreme risk protection orders -- Families vs. assault rifles -- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- Federal Firearms Act of 1938 (Public Law No. 75-785) -- Federalism and gun control -- Federation for NRA -- Feinstein, Dianne -- Felons and gun control -- Fifty Caliber Shooters Association, Inc. (FCSA) -- Firearm dealers -- Firearm Sentence Enhancement (FSE) laws -- Firearms industry -- Firearms Owners' Protection Act of 1986 -- Firearms shooting accuracy rates -- Florida Carry, Inc. -- Fourteenth Amendment -- Fourth Amendment -- Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) -- Frontier violence -- Giffords, Gabrielle -- Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence -- Gottlieb, Alan Merril -- Gun buyback programs -- Gun clubs -- Gun Control Gun Control Act of 1968 -- Gun control, Attitudes toward -- Gun courts -- Gun culture -- Gun lobby -- Gun Owners' Action League (GOAL) -- Gun Owners of America (GOA). |
| Abstract | "The revised third edition of the landmark Guns in American Society provides an authoritative and objective survey of the history and current state of all gun-related issues and areas of debate in the United States"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Guns in American society. Third edition. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2023] 9781440867736 |
| Genre/form | Encyclopedias. |
| LCCN | 2022012539 |
| ISBN | 9781440867743 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1440867747 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) ; (3 vol. set) |