Under fire : the NRA and the battle for gun control /

Originally published in 1993, Under Fire was widely hailed as the first objective examination of the NRA and its efforts to defeat gun control legislation. Now in this expanded edition, Osha Gray Davidson shows how the NRA's extremism has cost the organization both political power and popular s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davidson, Osha Gray
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1998.
Edición:An expanded ed.
Temas:
National Rifle Association of America.
National Rifle Association of America
Gun control > United States.
Lobbying > United States.
Armes à feu > Contrôle > États-Unis.
Lobbying > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Gun control.
Lobbying.
Waffenrecht
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I THE RISE OF THE NRA: The Stockton Lesson
  • The Early Years
  • One of the Great Religions of the World
  • PART II CRACKS IN THE EMPIRE: The Bullet and the Badge
  • A War in the Streets
  • Holding Actions
  • Enemies Within and Without
  • PART III GUN WARS: Drums along the Potomac
  • First Blood
  • Palace Coup
  • Operation St. Joseph
  • The Last Battle
  • EPILOGUE
  • 200,000 BODIES: THE BATTLE CONTINUES

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