A two-volume set in which alphabetically arranged entries provide information on the history, politics, culture, laws, and controversies surrounding guns in American society.

Includes index.

Aborn Richard -- Academics for the Second Amendment -- Accidents Gun -- Acquisition of Guns -- African Americans and Gun Violence -- AK-47 -- Alcohol and Gun Violence -- American Academy of Pediatrics -- American Bar Association -- American Civil Liberties Union -- American Jewish Congress -- American Medical Association -- American Revolution -- American Rifleman -- Americans for Democratic Action -- Americans for Gun Safety -- Ammunition Regulations of -- Ammunition Types of -- Amnesty Programs -- Anglo-Saxon Tradition of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms -- Antiterrorist Legislation -- Armijo v. Ex Cam, Inc. -- Arming Women Against Rape and Endangerment -- Articles of Confederation and Gun Control -- Assault Weapons -- Assault Weapons Ban -- Association of American Physicians and Surgeons -- Attitudes toward Gun Control -- Automatic Weapons Laws -- Availability of Guns, Effects on Crime -- Average-Joe Thesis -- Aymette v. State -- Background Checks -- Bailey v. United States -- Barr Bob -- Barrett v. United States -- Barron v. Baltimore -- Bartley-Fox Carrying Law -- Beecham v. United States -- Beechers Bibles -- Berkowitz Leonard -- Bernethy v. Walt Failors Inc. -- Black Codes -- Black Market for Firearms -- Black Panthers -- Black Talon -- Boomtowns Cowtowns and Gun Violence -- Boone Daniel -- Borinsky Mark -- Boxer Barbara -- Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence -- Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence -- Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act -- Brady Bill -- Brady James S. -- Brady Sarah Kemp -- Branch Davidians -- British American Security Information Council -- Brooks Jack B. -- Brown Bess -- Browning John Moses -- Bryan v. United States-- Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms -- Bureau of Justice Statistics -- Bush George H. W. -- California Street Massacre -- Campaign to Protect Sane Gun Laws -- Canada Gun Laws -- Canadian Firearms Centre -- Caron v. United States -- Carter Harlon -- Cartridges -- Cases v. United States -- Cease Fire Inc. -- Center for Gun Policy and Research -- Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence -- Centers for Disease Control -- Chaffee John H. -- Chenoweth-Hage Helen -- Child Access Prevention -- Childrens Defense Fund -- Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms -- City of Las Vegas v. Moberg -- City of Salina v. Blaksley -- Civil War and Small Arms -- Civil War Reenactments -- Clinton William J. -- Coalition to Stop Gun Violence -- Cody William ·Buffalo Bill· -- Collectors -- Colleges and Gun Violence -- Colt Samuel -- Columbine High School Tragedy -- Commonwealth v. Davis -- Concealed Weapons Laws -- Congressional Voting Patterns on Gun Control -- Consumer Product Safety Laws -- Conyers John -- Cook Philip J. -- Cowboy Action Shooting -- Craig Larry E. -- Crime and Gun Use -- Defensive Gun Use -- Democratic Party and Gun Control -- Department of Justice, U.S. -- Derringers -- Dick Act (Militia Act of 1903) -- Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. -- Dime Novels and the Sensationalization of Frontier Violence -- Dingell John D. -- Dix v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp. -- Doctors Against Handgun Injury -- Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research -- Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership -- Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws -- Dodd, Thomas Joseph -- Dole, Robert -- Domestic Violence and Guns -- Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Drive-by Shootings-- Drugs, Crime, and Guns: Cross-National Comparisons -- Drugs, Crime, and Guns: United States -- Dueling -- Dum-Dum Bullet -- Eddie Eagle -- Emergency Committee for Gun Control -- Enforcement of Gun Control Laws -- Farmer v. Higgins -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Federal Firearms Act -- Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association -- Federalism and Gun Control -- Federation for NRA -- Feinstein Dianne -- Felons and Gun Control -- Finland Gun Laws -- Firearm Dealers -- Firearm Industry -- Firearm Injury Statistical Systems -- Firearm Sentence Enhancement Laws -- Firearms Coalition -- Firearms Litigation Clearinghouse -- Firearms Owners Against Crime -- Firearms Owners Protection Act -- First Monday: Unite to End Gun Violence -- Fourteenth Amendment -- Fourth Amendment -- Fraternal Order of Police -- Fresno Rifle and Pistol Club, Inc. v. Van de Kamp -- Frontier Violence -- General Social Survey -- Genocide and Guns -- Gottlieb Alan Merril -- Gritz James ·Bo· -- Guggenheim Foundation, Harry Frank -- Gun Buyback Programs -- Gun Clubs -- Gun Control -- Gun Control Act -- Gun Culture -- Gun Magazines -- Gun News Digest -- Gun Owners Action League -- Gun Owners of America -- Gun Owners of California -- Gun Ownership -- Gun Registration -- Gun Rights Policy Conference -- Gun Shows -- Gun Violence -- Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem -- Gun Week -- Gun-Free School Laws -- Gunpowder -- Guns in the Home -- Gunshot Detection Technologies -- Gunshot Wounds -- Wound Ballistics -- Halbrook Stephen P. -- Hammer Marion P. -- Handguns -- Health Care Professionals -- HELP Network -- Hemenway David -- Herbert Henry William-- Heston Charlton -- Hickok James Butler ·Wild Bill· -- Hinckley John Warnock Jr. -- Homicides Gun -- Huddleston v. United States -- Hunting -- Hyde Henry J. -- Ideologies--Conservative and Liberal -- Independence Institute -- Institute for Legislative Action -- Interest Groups and Gun Legislation -- International Association of Chiefs of Police -- International Brotherhood of Police Officers -- Intervention Effects -- Izaak Walton League of America -- Japan Gun Laws -- Jefferson Thomas -- Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership -- John Birch Society -- Johnson Lyndon B. -- Justifiable Homicides -- Kates Don B. Jr. -- Kellermann Arthur L. -- Kennedy Edward M. -- Kennesaw Georgia -- Killeen Texas Massacre -- Klanwatch Project -- Kleck Gary -- Knox Neal -- Kopel David B. -- Ku Klux Klan -- LaPierre Wayne R. Jr. -- Lautenberg Frank R. -- Law Enforcement for the Preservation of the Second Amendment -- Lawsuits against Gun Manufacturers -- Lawyers Second Amendment Society -- League of Women Voters and Gun Control -- Legal Action Project -- Legal Community Against Violence -- Lennon John -- Lethality Effect of Guns -- Lewis v. United States -- Liability of Gun Manufacturers -- Licensing -- Long Gun -- Long Island Railroad Massacre -- Long Rifle Pennsylvania/Kentucky -- Lott John R., Jr. -- Ludwig Jens Otto.