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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In this book, the author, deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the ten most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a Navy SEAL. He uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun. He revisits turning points in American history, including the single sniper shot...
Publisher
AETN
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ranging in size, power, use, and style, the gun has been a part of human conflict for centuries, Its use has varied from hunting and protection to international combat and urban dispute. Trace the history of the gun from its inception in the 14th Century.
8) Snipers Inc
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Selling guns to snipers is all in a day's work for one small-town Tennessee family. Ronnie, the desinger and businessman at the helm of Barrett Firearms Manufacturing and his two children are responsible for creating the M107 sniper rifle. The world's first semi-automatic .50 caliber rifle, the M107s power and precision allow snipers to destroy multiple targets from more thatn 20 football fields away."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Six moving profiles reveal the complex realities behind gun violence in the United States. These are the stories of the shooters.
In South Carolina, a young man embarks on a life of crime that culminates in a drug-related shooting and decades in prison; in Chicago, an off-duty police officer engages in a shootout with a murderous gunman, saving a fellow patrolman; in rural Tennessee, a troubled teenager shoots her abusive father in his sleep. The...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ayres and Vars identify ten policies that can be immediately adopted at the state level to reduce the number of gun-related deaths without affecting the rights of gun owners. For example, Donna's Law, a voluntary program whereby individuals can choose to restrict their ability to purchase or possess firearms, can significantly decrease suicide rates. Amending Red Flag statutes, which allow judges to restrict access to guns when an individual has...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Jack Garrett isn't a police officer yet, but there's already an emergency. His new firearms instructor--the one who just dropped every jaw in the academy gym--is the same sexy Irish stranger Jack locked lips with last night. The Olympic gold medalist and expert markswoman is now officially off-limits, but Jack's never cared much for rules. Katie McCoy's been cooped up in a shooting range for too long. A wild love affair is just what she needs to...
13) Sons of guns
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The bayou of Baton Rouge, a place where the weather is hot, the humidity s off the charts and the characters are larger-than-life. And it s a place that Will Hayden fits right in. Why? Because Will, with the help of eldest daughter Stephanie, runs Red Jacket Firearms, the nation's most unique weapons business.
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides descriptions, prices, and photographs of small firearms. The definitive source for making informed decisions on used firearms purchases. Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of the most popular manufacturers, including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Remington, Savage, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and many more.
15) One breath away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daughter who left home years earlier, stands by helplessly and wonders if he has failed his child again....
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Language
English
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Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for commonsense gun reform. But as he peeled back evidence surrounding the racially charged mass shooting, a shocking question emerged: Did the public health approach he had championed for years have it all wrong? Long at the forefront of a movement advocating...
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Language
English
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Description
Shooter's Bible, the most trusted source on firearms, is here to bring you a new guide with expert knowledge and advice on gun care. Double-page spreads filled with photos and illustrations provide manufacturer specifications on each featured model and guide you through disassembly and assembly for rifles, shotguns, handguns, and muzzleloaders. Step-by-step instructions for cleaning help you to care for your firearms safely. Never have a doubt about...
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Language
English
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"A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in America There's an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given the ineffectiveness of the gun control lobby, it's time for a strategy with spine. In Repeal the Second Amendment, Allan J. Lichtman has written the first book that uses history, legal theory and up-to-the-minute data to make a compelling case for the amendment's repeal in...
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