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Lock, Stock, and Barrel

The Origins of American Gun Culture

By: Clayton E. Cramer

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Lock, Stock, and Barrel

The Origins of American Gun Culture

By: Clayton E. Cramer

This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments. They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent from early American history because guns of all types, and especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them. However, as proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and high wages for workers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440860386

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Armed America

The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie

By: Clayton E. Cramer

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Armed America

The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie

By: Clayton E. Cramer

For many Americans, guns seem to be a fundamental part of the American experience?and always have been." Grand in scope, rigorous in research, and elegant in presenting the formative years of our country, Armed America traces the winding historical trail of United States citizens' passion for firearms. Author and historial Clayton E. Cramer goes back to the source, unearthing first-hand accounts from the colonial times, through the Revolutionary War period, and into the early years of the American Republic. In Armed America, Cramer depicts a budding nation dependent on its firearms not only for food and protection, but also for recreation and enjoyment. Through newspaper clippings, official documents, and personal diaries, he shows that recent grandiose theories claiming that guns were scarce in early America are shaky at best, and downright false at worst. Above all, Cramer allows readers a priceless glimpse of a country literally fighting for its identity. For those who think that our citizens' attraction to firearms is a recent phenomenon, it's time to think again. Armed America proves that the right to bear arms is as American as apple pie.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418551872

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Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic

Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform

By: Clayton E. Cramer

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Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic

Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform

By: Clayton E. Cramer

Cramer's work examines the motivations and legislative history behind the nation's first laws regulating the carrying of concealed deadly weapons and establishes a previously unexplored link between these laws and efforts to suppress dueling in the southern back country. Earlier attempts to analyze these laws focused upon efforts to maintain slavery by severely restricting the rights of free blacks: if free blacks could not possess arms and lacked other basic rights, slaves would be less inclined to seek their freedom. Cramer rejects such thinking by demonstrating that the concealed weapon laws of the early republic were not racially-motivated. He further supports the work of other scholars who have lately examined the role of Scots-Irish immigrants in creating a distinctive southern back-country culture of honor violence including dueling and brawling. It was the attempt to control such violence, Cramer argues, that led to the concealed weapons laws. Thus, rather than considering gun control laws primarily as legal or constitutional history, this study starts from a cultural and historical viewpoint. Southern state legislatures sought to improve the morals of their back-country population through increasingly severe punishments for dueling. When judges and juries regularly refused to convict duelists, these legislatures created extrajudicial punishments by requiring elected and appointed officials, as well as lawyers, to swear oaths of non-participation in dueling. Young men, obsessed with honor and reluctant to perjure themselves for fear of damaging their public reputation, soon took to carrying Bowie knives and handguns with which to kill those who insulted them—a perfectly honorable action to much of the population. The state legislatures then severely regulated carrying of concealed deadly weapons in the hope of suppressing the bloody results of what had been, until then, an accepted practice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313388458

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9780313388453

Firing Back

By: Clayton E. Cramer

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Firing Back

By: Clayton E. Cramer

Here's the only ammunition to refute the gun-control advocates. Find information to support the "other side" of the story. Learn to write letters to editors, legislators and debate Second Amendment rights.

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212

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Gower Publishing Company, Limited

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087341344X

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9780873413442

Armed America

The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie

By: Clayton E. Cramer

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The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie

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Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic

Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform

By: Clayton E. Cramer

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Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform

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Lock, Stock, and Barrel

Lock, Stock, and Barrel

Armed America

Armed America

Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic

Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic

Firing Back

Firing Back

Armed America

Armed America

Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic

Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic

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