Under fire : the NRA and the battle for gun control / Osha Gray Davidson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, �1998.Edition: An expanded edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 338 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1587290421
- 9781587290428
- National Rifle Association of America
- National Rifle Association of America
- National Rifle Association of America
- Gun control -- United States
- Lobbying -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement
- Gun control
- Lobbying
- United States
- Waffenrecht
- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Social Sciences
- 363.3/3/06073 21
- HV7436 .D38 1998eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-328) and index.
PART I THE RISE OF THE NRA: The Stockton Lesson -- The Early Years -- One of the Great Religions of the World -- PART II CRACKS IN THE EMPIRE: The Bullet and the Badge -- A War in the Streets -- Holding Actions -- Enemies Within and Without -- PART III GUN WARS: Drums along the Potomac -- First Blood -- Palace Coup -- Operation St. Joseph -- The Last Battle – EPILOGUE -- 200,000 BODIES: THE BATTLE CONTINUES
Originally published in 1993, Under Fire was widely hailed as the first objective examination of the NRA and its efforts to defeat gun control legislation. Now in this expanded edition, Osha Gray Davidson shows how the NRA's extremism has cost the organization both political power and popular support. He offers a well-reasoned and workable approach to gun control, one that will find many supporters even among the NRA membership -- Provided by publisher
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