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A carefully documented, easy-to-read history of public laws and attitudes toward gun ownership from colonial times to the present. The subject comes alive with the debate between pro- and anti-control advocates, especially in their dispute over the meaning of the Second Amendment.

Table of Contents

Introduction Our European Heritage Guns and the Constitution The Militia--Then and Now Guns and the Law What the Courts Have Said What the American Public Thinks The Practice in Other Countries The Propaganda Campaign, Pro and Con: Phase 1 Propaganda: Phase 2 What Are the Alternatives? Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

WILBUR EDEL is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Lehman College of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Defenders of the Faith (Praeger, 1987) and A Constitutional Convention (Praeger, 1981).

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