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1.
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
by:
Paul M. Barrett
3.87 avg rating β 2,543 ratings
2.
The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
by:
Thom Hartmann
4.07 avg rating β 334 ratings
3.
The NRA: The Unauthorized History
by:
Frank Smyth
3.66 avg rating β 245 ratings
4.
Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
by:
Ioan Grillo
4.22 avg rating β 626 ratings
5.
Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America
by:
Ryan Busse
4.38 avg rating β 1,467 ratings
6.
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
by:
Priya Satia
3.42 avg rating β 192 ratings
7.
American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
by:
Chris Kyle
4.03 avg rating β 4,205 ratings
8.
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
by:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
3.90 avg rating β 1,056 ratings
9.
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
by:
Pamela Haag
3.35 avg rating β 319 ratings
10.
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
by:
Adam Winkler
4.08 avg rating β 1,026 ratings
11.
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
by:
Carol Anderson
4.31 avg rating β 1,436 ratings
12.
Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense
by:
Caroline E. Light
3.97 avg rating β 102 ratings
13.
The NRA: The Unauthorized History
by:
Frank Smyth
3.66 avg rating β 245 ratings
14.
Colt: The Revolver of the American West
by:
Jeffrey Richardson
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
15.
Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
by:
Jim Rasenberger
3.97 avg rating β 342 ratings
16.
The Invention of the Revolver: The Saga of Sam Colt
by:
Jack Kelly
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
16.
The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
by:
Jillian Peterson
4.46 avg rating β 1,354 ratings
16.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Linda Colley
3.78 avg rating β 553 ratings
19.
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
by:
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
4.24 avg rating β 882 ratings
19.
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West
by:
Jeff Guinn
3.97 avg rating β 2,788 ratings
21.
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
by:
Tom Clavin
3.94 avg rating β 2,449 ratings
22.
Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America (Fast Track Books)
by:
Mary Zeiss Stange
3.71 avg rating β 14 ratings
23.
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea
by:
Joshua Horwitz
4.42 avg rating β 12 ratings
24.
Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns
by:
Igor Volsky
4.05 avg rating β 110 ratings
25.
Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
by:
Nicholas Johnson
4.37 avg rating β 102 ratings
26.
The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
by:
Chris Murphy
4.39 avg rating β 550 ratings
27.
To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right
by:
Joyce Lee Malcolm
3.93 avg rating β 59 ratings
28.
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
by:
Dave Cullen
3.97 avg rating β 7,429 ratings
29.
Yes, Virginia There Is A Second Amendment - The Virginia Gun Control Debate and Governor Ralph Northam's Unconstitutional Power Grab
by:
Timothy Corder
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
29.
How & Why Wonder Book of Guns
by:
Irving Robbin
2.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
29.
Psychoanalytic & Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism: Desire for Destruction
by:
Nina E. Cerfolio
4.94 avg rating β 18 ratings
32.
An Act of Bravery: Otis W. McDonald and the Second Amendment
by:
Sue Bowron
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
32.
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
by:
Michael A. Bellesiles
2.86 avg rating β 97 ratings
32.
The Politics of Gun Control
by:
Robert J. Spitzer
3.71 avg rating β 69 ratings
35.
The Second Amendment Manifesto: What Every American Should Know about Their Constitutional Right to Own Guns
by:
John Paine
4.49 avg rating β 82 ratings
35.
Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy
by:
Ronald Utt
4.16 avg rating β 212 ratings
37.
Thunder in the Mountains: A Portrait of American Gun Culture
by:
Craig K. Collins
3.69 avg rating β 39 ratings
37.
Guns and Self-Defense: 23 Inspirational True Crime Stories of Survival with Firearms
by:
Robert A. Waters
3.86 avg rating β 14 ratings
37.
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
by:
Tonio Andrade
4.23 avg rating β 226 ratings
37.
Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales
by:
Linda Lombardi
3.24 avg rating β 133 ratings
41.
America and its Guns
by:
James E. Atwood
4.12 avg rating β 90 ratings
41.
Stalked And Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me
by:
Nikki Goeser
4.52 avg rating β 23 ratings
41.
Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws: Incredible True Stories of Wild West Showdowns and Frontier Justice
by:
William MacLeod Raine
3.58 avg rating β 159 ratings
44.
Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights
by:
Robert J. Spitzer
3.46 avg rating β 61 ratings
44.
Thank God I Had a Gun: True Accounts of Self-Defense
by:
Chris Bird
4.18 avg rating β 72 ratings
44.
The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers
by:
Rachel Dickinson
3.60 avg rating β 78 ratings
47.
Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy
by:
Dennis A. Henigan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 16 ratings
47.
From Luby's to the Legislature: One Woman's Fight Against Gun Control
by:
Suzanna Gratia Hupp
4.13 avg rating β 45 ratings
47.
Treasures of the NRA National Firearms Museum
by:
Jim Supica
4.26 avg rating β 19 ratings
50.
AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War
by:
Larry Kahaner
3.64 avg rating β 244 ratings
50.
Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns
by:
Glenn Beck
4.10 avg rating β 1,380 ratings
50.
A War without Rifles
by:
James Norris Gibson
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
53.
History of Smith & Wesson
by:
Roy G. Jinks
3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
53.
Black Man with a Gun: Justifiable Force Is a Constitutional Right
by:
Lucky Rosenbloom
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
53.
The Second Amendment: An Illustrated History
by:
Applewood Books
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
56.
The History of Winchester Firearms
by:
Dean K. Boorman
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
56.
The Truth About Gun Control
by:
David B. Kopel
4.10 avg rating β 21 ratings
56.
Enough Is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety
by:
Michelle Roehm McCann
3.83 avg rating β 70 ratings
59.
The Social History of the Machine Gun
by:
John Ellis
3.98 avg rating β 160 ratings
59.
The Blue Tent Sky: How the Left's War on Guns Cost Me My Son and My Freedom
by:
Brian D. Aitken
4.37 avg rating β 62 ratings
61.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
by:
John R. Lott Jr.
4.07 avg rating β 840 ratings
61.
Peace in Our Cities: Rabbis Against Gun Violence
by:
Menachem Creditor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
63.
Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
by:
Patrick J. Charles
3.79 avg rating β 97 ratings
63.
Not By Might: Channeling the Power of Faith to End Gun Violence
by:
Menachem Creditor
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
65.
How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis
by:
William Briggs
4.23 avg rating β 13 ratings
65.
Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
by:
Shannon Watts
4.19 avg rating β 697 ratings
67.
American Shooter: A Personal History of Gun Culture in the United States
by:
Gerry Souter
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
67.
Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
by:
Shane Claiborne
4.31 avg rating β 551 ratings
69.
Guns on the Early Frontiers: From Colonial Times to the Years of the Western Fur Trade
by:
Carl P. Russell
4.07 avg rating β 28 ratings
69.
#Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will
by:
Jamie Kilstein
3.91 avg rating β 462 ratings
71.
Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
by:
Erik Larson
3.66 avg rating β 2,122 ratings
72.
The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
by:
Nathan Gorenstein
4.44 avg rating β 330 ratings
73.
The Second Amendment
by:
Michael Waldman
4.03 avg rating β 1,338 ratings
73.
Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA
by:
Tim Mak
3.97 avg rating β 571 ratings
75.
Book of Glock: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Most Popular Handgun
by:
Robert A. Sadowski
4.39 avg rating β 28 ratings
76.
Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
by:
R.J. Young
3.81 avg rating β 266 ratings
76.
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
by:
Chad L. Williams
4.33 avg rating β 76 ratings
78.
Gunpower
by:
Patrick Blanchfield
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
78.
Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
by:
Ronnie Greene
3.95 avg rating β 286 ratings
80.
Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun
by:
A.J. Somerset
3.97 avg rating β 64 ratings
80.
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 19: Violence
by:
Amy Louise Wood
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
82.
The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
by:
Lesley Gill
3.84 avg rating β 137 ratings
83.
The Trigger: Narratives of the American Shooter
by:
Daniel J. Patinkin
4.16 avg rating β 174 ratings
83.
Guns
by:
Stephen King
4.18 avg rating β 9,744 ratings
85.
America's Premier Gunmakers: Remington
by:
K.D. Kirkland
4.08 avg rating β 13 ratings
85.
Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
by:
Mark Oppenheimer
4.22 avg rating β 516 ratings
87.
America's Premier Gunmakers: Colt
by:
K.D. Kirkland
4.33 avg rating β 12 ratings
87.
Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
by:
Nancy K. Bristow
4.73 avg rating β 11 ratings
89.
The Flintlock Musket: Brown Bess and Charleville 1715β1865 (Weapon, 44)
by:
Stuart Reid
4.14 avg rating β 21 ratings
89.
When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later
by:
Robert Giles
4.39 avg rating β 71 ratings
91.
A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.80 avg rating β 169 ratings
92.
Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline
by:
Jennifer Carlson
3.77 avg rating β 84 ratings
93.
Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent
by:
Rodrigo Bascunan
4.05 avg rating β 38 ratings
93.
The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice
by:
Malcolm Bell
4.25 avg rating β 12 ratings
95.
Gun Crusaders: The NRAβs Culture War
by:
Scott Melzer
3.94 avg rating β 17 ratings
95.
"Rich Georgian Strangely Shot": Eugene Grace, "Daisy of the Leopard Spots" and the Great Atlanta Shooting of 1912
by:
Tom Hughes
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
97.
She's Got a Gun
by:
Nancy Floyd
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
97.
With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice
by:
Dorothy Marcic
3.06 avg rating β 353 ratings
99.
Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America
by:
Laura Browder
3.47 avg rating β 15 ratings
99.
Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
by:
Mark Lee Gardner
4.03 avg rating β 1,012 ratings
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