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Book Firearms Or Ammunition Manufacturers and Importers Information Booklet

Download or read book Firearms Or Ammunition Manufacturers and Importers Information Booklet written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advanced Gunsmithing

Download or read book Advanced Gunsmithing written by W. F. Vickery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical landmark title on the practice of gunsmithing. • Readers say it best: "This is the real deal. If you want to be a master gunsmith you need to understand how they did it in the past." • Vickery’s clear and precise instruction covers gunsmithing essentials and techniques for both the amateur and professional smith. It is a valuable collector’s item for any firearm enthusiast. • Classic and practical, Advanced Gunsmithing is a noteworthy companion to the gunsmither’s workbench. • Rated 5.0 stars by customers in interested in Hobby books.

Book Blue Book of Gun Values

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  • Author : S. P. Fjestad
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-04-30
  • ISBN : 9781886768550
  • Pages : 1936 pages

Download or read book Blue Book of Gun Values written by S. P. Fjestad and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 1936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "bible" of the firearms industry for accurate value information and descriptions of rifles, pistols, and shotguns. The industry standard for over 25 years!

Book Lock  Stock  and Barrel

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  • Author : Clayton E. Cramer
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2018-02-21
  • ISBN : 1440860386
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Lock Stock and Barrel written by Clayton E. Cramer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments. They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent from early American history because guns of all types, and especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them. However, as proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and high wages for workers.

Book Commerce in Firearms in the U S

Download or read book Commerce in Firearms in the U S written by Bradley A. Buckles and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical part of the mission of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) is to prevent diversion of the millions of firearms sold in the U.S. each year from the legal to the illegal market, & to keep them out of the hands of criminals, unauthorized juveniles & other prohibited persons. This report presents data on the firearms market & describes ATF's regulatory enforcement program to prevent firearms trafficking. Covers developments in regulatory enforcement of the federal firearms laws. Includes: statistical tables relating to firearms commerce; categories of federal firearms licensees, Brady Act States, &; & an overview of federal firearms legislation in the U.S.

Book American Firearms Makers

Download or read book American Firearms Makers written by Arthur Merwyn Carey and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Firearms Makers is without question the most complete reference work of its kind in print. It is a cyclopedia of firearms makers of both long and short arms, custom made and arms made under federal and state government contracts. It covers the period from the Colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. American Firearms Makers contains more than 2100 entries arranged in alphabetical order from Andrew Agnew to John Zuendorff. All the great makers, such as Colt, Derringer, Drepperd, Pomeroy, Whitney, etc., have considerable material to cover a complete summary of their activities and their place in American firearms history, not to mention the hundreds and hundreds of other makers whose names may be puzzling to collectors. Each entry will tell you the correct spelling of the maker's name, the span of years he was active, the town or city and state in which he was located, and the type of arms he produced. The data are intentionally concise; but, where it is appropriate, other information is abundantly supplied: patent dates, descriptive markings, calibers and dimensions of the arms, etc. Other books have covered sections of the country and limited periods of the subject's history. This is the first book covering the entire United States during the flintlock, percussion, and metallic-cartridge cycles of arms. The material in American Firearms Makers represents thirty-three years of collecting, researching, and inspecting old firearms, both in the United States and abroad. The author has one of the best reference libraries in this field. This volume has been awaited by collectors, antique dealers, libraries, and museums. American Firearms Makers is illustrated with authentic contemporary pictures together with photographs from the author's collection. It contains in addition a chronology and a bibliography"--Jacket flap

Book Commerce in Firearms in the United States

Download or read book Commerce in Firearms in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report presents and analyzes data collected by ATF and other federal agencies relating to the firearms industry and its regulation.

Book Owner Authorized Handguns

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  • Author : National Academy of Engineering
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2003-10-17
  • ISBN : 0309166861
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Owner Authorized Handguns written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The feasibility and potential impact of so-called smart handguns has generated considerable public interest and debate. This report summarizes a June 2002 workshop at the National Academy of Engineering that examined three related issues: the state of technology for owner-authorized handguns; the role of product liability in the development and marketing of such firearms; and the potential impact of these smart guns on health and crime. Smart-gun technology has the potential to prevent unintended or undesirable uses of handguns, such as accidental shootings; the shooting of police officers by assailants using the officers' own weapons; suicides; homicides with stolen handguns; and other gun-related crimes. However, information presented at the workshop suggests that considerably more research is needed to bring a reliable and commercially viable product to the marketplace. The report also notes that the impact of smart-guns will be influenced by legal issues, human behavior, economic conditions, and other factors.

Book Exploring Gun Use in America  The firearms industry

Download or read book Exploring Gun Use in America The firearms industry written by Greenwood Press and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at all sides of the gun control issue in the United States, including important Supreme Court cases, the history of the firearms industry, and the influence of the National Rifle Association in the debate.

Book Firearms Production in America

Download or read book Firearms Production in America written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smith   Wesson

Download or read book Smith Wesson written by Roy G. Jinks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most respected of firearm companies, Smith & Wesson explores the guns and company history from 1852 to to 1965. Rarely seen historical photographs, advertisements, and company documents culled from the company archives, museums collections, and the private collections of Smith & Wesson collectors make this a must for every gun collector and admirer. Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson shared a dream of manufacturing a firearm that could fire repeatedly, using a new and self-contained cartridge. In 1852, the dream became a reality with the founding of Smith & Wesson Firearms Company. Over the next 154 years, the company grew to be one of the most innovative and respected firearms manufacturers in the world. The story of Smith & Wesson is not only about two knowledgeable and enterprising men but also the story of generations of creative and dedicated men and women. The spirit of innovation generated by the partners has long outlived them. Today Smith & Wesson is synonymous with quality, performance, and durability. Smith & Wesson explores the company history, its people, and significant products from the partners' first venture in 1852 to the sale of the Wesson family business in 1965. This book features rarely seen historical photographs, advertisements, and company documents culled from the company archives, museums collections, and the private collections of Smith & Wesson collectors.

Book Suing Gun Manufacturers

Download or read book Suing Gun Manufacturers written by H. Sterling Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gunning of America

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  • Author : Pamela Haag
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2016-04-19
  • ISBN : 0465098568
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book The Gunning of America written by Pamela Haag and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so we're told. In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated in America because throughout most of the nation's history, they were perceived as an unexceptional commodity, no different than buttons or typewriters. Focusing on the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the most iconic arms manufacturers in America, Haag challenges many basic assumptions of how and when America became a gun culture. Under the leadership of Oliver Winchester and his heirs, the company used aggressive, sometimes ingenious sales and marketing techniques to create new markets for their product. Guns have never "sold themselves"; rather, through advertising and innovative distribution campaigns, the gun industry did. Through the meticulous examination of gun industry archives, Haag challenges the myth of a primal bond between Americans and their firearms. Over the course of its 150 year history, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company sold over 8 million guns. But Oliver Winchester-a shirtmaker in his previous career-had no apparent qualms about a life spent arming America. His daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester was a different story. Legend holds that Sarah was haunted by what she considered a vast blood fortune, and became convinced that the ghosts of rifle victims were haunting her. She channeled much of her inheritance, and her conflicted conscience, into a monstrous estate now known as the Winchester Mystery House, where she sought refuge from this ever-expanding army of phantoms. In this provocative and deeply-researched work of narrative history, Haag fundamentally revises the history of arms in America, and in so doing explodes the clichéthat have created and sustained our lethal gun culture.

Book Gunland USA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marty Langley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780927291040
  • Pages : 17 pages

Download or read book Gunland USA written by Marty Langley and published by . This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Firearms

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  • Author : Stephen Van Rensselaer
  • Publisher : American Life Foundation
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book American Firearms written by Stephen Van Rensselaer and published by American Life Foundation. This book was released on 1947 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire of Guns

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  • Author : Priya Satia
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-04-10
  • ISBN : 0735221871
  • Pages : 655 pages

Download or read book Empire of Guns written by Priya Satia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.