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COVER -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: The Politics of Gun Control -- Gun Activists Misconstrue the Second Amendment -- The Second Amendment Remains Relevant -- Gun-Control Laws Reduce Violence -- Gun Control Does Not Prevent Crime -- Manufacturers Should Share in Guns' Costs to Society -- Gun Manufacturers Are Not Responsible for Gun-Related Deaths -- CONCLUSION: The Future of Gun Control in the United States -- APPENDIX -- ELEMENTS OF THE ARGUMENT -- NOTES -- RESOURCES -- PICTURE CREDITS -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS.

A recent article in the New York Times focused on the possible increase in female gun ownership in the United States. This "new" phenomenon of women and guns is of course far from new: as early as the 1870s, trapshooting for women was publicized by gun manufacturers as yet another feminine activity, not far removed from shopping or club work. The ultra-feminine Annie Oakley, who in the 1880s became an international star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, personally taught fifteen thousand women to shoot. By the turn of the twentieth century, gun manufacturers were promoting hunting as a healthful activity for women.

Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America assembles a diverse group of the nation's leading authorities on guns and gun violence to present the most up-to-date research currently available. Exploring such controversial issues as gun- tracing initiatives, the possible extension of the Brady Bill, gun-oriented policing, federal law enforcement initiatives such as "Project Exile," and civil litigation against gun manufacturers, Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America embarks upon a more balanced and nuanced discussion about firearms. Though the book's contributors operate from a wide variety of political perspectives and methodological approaches, a central desire unifies the book: to end the extreme polarization that currently characterizes the debate on guns, and generate reasonable and practical gun policies in the United States. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1112/thumbnail.jpg