Download or read book Guns on Trial written by Edward Green and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the love of his life is slain in an assault on a hospital by terrorists striving for maximum carnage, John Foxcroft, first violinist of the National Symphony Orchestra and ex-Marine bandsman, grieves inconsolably and vows vengeance. On learning that the killers acquired their automatic rifles legally in the United States through a loophole in the law that allows unlicensed dealers to sell without background checks, he focuses his rage on powerful interests that thwart strict gun laws. His armed campaign panics the gun establishment by destroying the offices of the American Firearms Association and a gun show, but without inflicting human injury. An arrest leading to trial locks the advocates of gun control and gun rights into a fierce debate, which reaches its climax in an internationally headlined criminal trial. A maverick judge permits freewheeling debate to displace rules of testimony in a trial modeled procedurally after the historical Scopes monkey trial. In the novel's most noteworthy contribution to the real-world gun debate, the defense demolishes the scientific foundations of the pro-gun case, represented by the prosecution, with a simple yet overpowering logic. Biographical sketches and events in the lives of the characters illuminate the human side of actions leading to and flowing from the hospital massacre. John mends his heartbreak in a relationship with Libby Taylor, also a survivor of the hospital massacre. Defense Attorney Aaron Klein and Jesuit priest, Father James Rourke, conspire to conceal John's role as shooter. The saga of the Al Qaeda terrorists, sanctified by Osama Bin Laden, takes the reader from the mountains bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan to the United States, then to Guantanamo where the captives undergo interrogation. Police strategizing to catch the shooter, journalists' putting events into context, gun show pageantry, gun lore, brainstorming in gun association meetings, and jurors' deliberations bring to life the strategies and tactics of the combatants in the gun wars. Although this is a work of fiction, the claims, counterclaims, and evidence set forth in the trial testimony are authentic.
Download or read book Gun Control on Trial written by Brian Doherty and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court had its first opportunity in seven decades to address one of America's most impassioned constitutional debates: does the right to possess firearms, as stated in the Second Amendment, apply to individuals? Yes, the Court ruled, it does. And, with that decision, the District's handgun ban - one of the toughest and most controversial in the nation - was ended." "In Gun Control on Trial, journalist Brian Doherty tells the full story behind the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller ruling. With exclusive, behind-the-scenes access throughout the case, Doherty takes readers on a remarkable journey - through the legal, scientific, and historical debates; the political battles; and the myths about gun control that have become widespread." "But, beyond the legal arguments are the stories of the people involved in the case. Detailed in Gun Control on Trial are compelling portraits of the plaintiffs - individuals willing to fight for their right to protect themselves and their families from violent criminals, the activist lawyers, who worked exhaustively for their clients, and the city officials who fought any attempt to give their citizens the right to self-defense." "The Heller decision does not settle every controversy in the gun control debate. What it did do, Doherty writes, is create "a new shape to the arena in which the legal and political struggle over guns and gun control will be fought." Gun Control on Trial describes the ground on which that fight will take place."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Gun Trial written by Dale E. Manolakas and published by Dale Manolakas. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ATTACK ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS: A Yale Student's Tragic End Triggers A Deadly Fight For Justice Against Gun Sellers Inspired by a real case, this is the latest release by top-selling legal thriller author Dale. E. Manolakas. In The Gun Trial guns fire and lives shatter. Media wars and violence drive this legally pivotal trial against gun sellers. Only the small Los Angeles firm of Kraus & White will take on the cutting-edge case against the national gun establishment and corporate oligarchs. Amidst the firm's internal strife, lead trial lawyer Sophia Christopoulos and her team fight the well-financed, corrupt opposition in hostile Bakersfield, California. Social tensions fuel the already volatile mix compounded by demonstrations, deaths, scandal, and the ratings-hungry media. Fighting for her life and her firm's survival, Sophia pushes the case to a climactic trial-confronting the ubiquity and difficulty of gun violence and guns themselves in America. [First in Series-Lethal Lawyers-Top 100 Amazon Legal Thriller for a Year] 5-Star Reviews: "Page-turning suspense," "Read this one. Drama, Pathos ... Sensational ... A Great Entertainment Bargain" "Great read, great characters, story moves at a fast pace looking forward to next book!" "Remarkably complex novel. Through vivid characters and numerous plot twists, it explores some of the most difficult issues our nation faces."
Download or read book Supreme Court Gun Cases written by David B. Kopel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses 92 Supreme Court gun-related cases, arguing that the Court has upheld the legal rights of private gun ownership and armed self defense.
Download or read book The Smoking Gun written by Gerry Spence and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his work on the cases of Karen Silkwood and Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the renowned attorney and "New York Times" bestselling author offers the true account of a trial that exposes the unrelenting power of the state that so often crushes all who come before the bar of justice--guilty or innocent.
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Download or read book How America Got Its Guns written by William Briggs and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author’s thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA’s first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs’s account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future.
Download or read book Trial of a 32 pounder cast iron gun converted into a 64 pounder rifled gun of 60 cwt and tested to destruction at Shoeburyness on the 15th August 1866 written by Sir William PALLISER and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Thorneycroft to SA80 written by Jonathan Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference work for all those interested in the history of military firearms. It charts the British love affair with the 'flipped' bullpup rifle and machine gun - weapons with their firing mechanism positioned behind the trigger - from a faltering start in the Edwardian period, through the controversy of the NATO rifle trials, to the troubled history of the current SA80 family.
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Download or read book The Gun and Its Development written by William Wellington Greener and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Choke bore Guns and how to Load for All Kinds of Game written by William Wellington Greener and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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