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The gun industry is the last unregulated manufacturer of a consumer product in America, with a level of secrecy that makes the tobacco industry look like a model of transparency. Making a Killing blows away the smoke and offers a provocative new take on gun violence in our society.

Former NRA member and "gun nut" Tom Diaz argues that despite endless rhetoric about the right to bear arms, the real story behind the steady rise in gun violence in America is the systematic increase in lethality by manufacturers.

Diaz shows how over the last two decades the gun industry has sought to reverse declining profits by dramatically increasing killing power, rolling out new and more dangerous products as breezily as car companies introduced tailfins in the fifties - and thereby contributing to a public health and safety disaster of epidemic proportions.

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New Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
258

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Firearms ownership, Gun control, Firearms industry and trade, Government policy, Waffenbesitz, Waffenindustrie, Bedrijfstakken, Gewalttätigkeit, Armes à feu, Vuurwapens, Contrôle, Industrie, Possession, Wapenbezit, Politique gouvernementale, Wapenindustrie, Firearms, law and legislation
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-249) and index.

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338.4/762344/0973
Library of Congress
HD9744.F553 U63 1999, HD9744.F553U63 1999

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258 p. ;
Number of pages
258

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OL372581M
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98034227
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39360548
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2030823
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2883074

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