Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States
Columbia University Press (2023)
Available for purchase at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and from Columbia University Press. If you purchase directly from Columbia University Press, you can save 20% of the purchase price ($6.99) by using the Promo Code CUP20.
For access to the unabridged notes click HERE.
For a book review by the National Review click HERE.
The Definitive History of Early Gun Rights Politics
Vote Gun will be the first book to historically explore the politicization of gun rights from the early twentieth century until 1980, examine in detail the rise and evolution of gun rights rhetoric in American politics, examine in detail how the passage of the 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA) forever transformed American elections and politics, and examine in detail the evolution of the National Rifle Association (NRA) as the “gun lobby," as well as how other gun rights advocacy groups challenged the NRA’s political monopoly.
A Comprehensive Examination of Gun Rights as a Voting and Political Issue
Vote Gun will provide historians and scholars with the most detailed compilation of sources and evidence from more than 150 archival collections to aid in future research on the history of firearms control politics—archival collections that had yet to be utilized or consulted for the issue of firearms controls. Additionally, Vote Gun will contain dozens of forgotten political advertisements on the issue of firearms controls from the mid-1960s until 1980.