CHAPTER 13
Among the articles I relied on to write about the advent of Pocket Rockets were Bill Torpy, “Laws Trigger Newfound Market for Small Guns: Easy to Conceal, They’re Being Toted by More Women,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution , December 16, 1995; “Glock’s New Pocket Rockets!” Guns & Ammo , January 1996; Massad Ayoob, “Building a Big Market with Small Handguns,” Shooting Industry , January 1996, and “Presentation Guns Make Ideal Gifts While Increasing Sales,” Shooting Industry , February 1996; and Alix M. Freedman, “Tinier, Deadlier Pocket Pistols Are in Vogue,” Wall Street Journal , September 12, 1996. For this chapter, I also found useful Massad Ayoob, “ ‘Trend Crimes’ and the Gun Dealer,” Shooting Industry , March 1993; “Headache Cure #2000,” Shooting Sports Retailer , January 1997; and Tom Diaz, Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America , pp. 69–92.
CHAPTER 14
For this chapter, I drew some material from Dyan Machan’s interview, “Top Gun,” Forbes , March 31, 2003.
CHAPTER 15
The Marion Hammer anecdote comes from David Olinger, Tim Nickens, and Kati Kairies, “Gun-Control Opponents Have Their Hopes Up for This Year,” St. Petersburg Times , March 12, 1989. For this chapter I also immersed myself in two gun-buff websites: Glock Talk ( thegunzone.com ).
CHAPTER 16
Two first-person accounts of municipal gun politics and litigation were highly valuable for this chapter: Peter Harry Brown and Daniel G. Abel, Outgunned: Up Against the NRA , especially pp. 7–67 and 171–234, and Richard Feldman, Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist , especially pp. 232–256. Other helpful sources include “Gun Makers Visit Clinton to Announce Safety Locks,” Knight-Ridder, October 10, 1997; Curtis Howell, “Hot as a Pistoclass="underline" Increasingly Prominent Gun Trade Group Wins Praise for Conciliatory Attitude Behind Safety-Lock Agreement,” Dallas Morning News , October 25 1997; Terrence Hunt, “Gun Makers Agree to Provide Childproof Locks on Handguns,” Associated Press, October 10, 1997; Jim Schneider, “Clinton Applauds Gun Makers at Historical Ceremony,” Shooting Industry , December 1, 1997; Paul M. Barrett, “Courting Trouble? As Lawsuits Loom, Gun Industry Presents a Fragmented Front—Widening Legal Threat Finds Makers, Sellers Are Split on Issues and Tactics,” Wall Street Journal , December 9, 1998; Roberto Suro, “Cities Plan Legal Assault on Makers of Handguns: Tobacco Lawsuits Viewed as Models,” Washington Post , December 23, 1998; Fox Butterfield, “Results in Tobacco Litigation Spur Cities to File Gun Suits,” New York Times , December 24, 1998; Alan Sayre, “Watchdog Group: Guns Swap Could Leave City Open for Lawsuit,” Associated Press, January 29, 1999; Will Anderson, “Gun Maker Takes Aim at Cities’ Lawsuits; Smyrna Glock Plant Chief Sees No Ties Between Anti-Smoking Lawsuits and Challenges Against Arms Industry Manufacturers,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution , February 14, 1999; Paul M. Barrett, “Gun Interests, Philadelphia Mayor to Talk Today,” Wall Street Journal , June 9, 1999; Paul M. Barrett and Jeffrey Taylor, “Focus of Gun-Control Fight Shifts to Cities, States,” Wall Street Journal , July 8, 1999; Vanessa O’Connell and Paul M. Barrett, “Ricochet: Cities Suing Gun Firms Have a Weak Spot: They’re Suppliers, Too—Police Trade-ins Cut Costs, but Many of the Weapons Land in the Wrong Hands,” Wall Street Journal , August 16, 1999; Matt Bai, “Clouds Over Gun Valley,” Newsweek , August 23, 1999; Paul M. Barrett and Vanessa O’Connell, “White House and Gun Industry May Discover Some Talking Points to Reach Deal on Lawsuit,” Wall Street Journal , December 13, 1999; Brigitte Greenberg, “Some NRA Allies Renounce Comments from Group’s Leaders,” Associated Press, March 21, 2000; “Glock Rejects Gun-Control Agreement,” Associated Press, March 22, 2000; Russ Thurmon, “Smith & Wesson Agreement Draws Fire,” Shooting Industry , May 1, 2000; Matt Bai, “A Gun Maker’s Agony: Inside Smith & Wesson’s Fight to Survive the Crossfire,” Newsweek , May 22, 2000; Rinker Buck, “Agreement Backfires on Smith & Wesson,” Hartford Courant , June 14, 2000; Gary Fields, “For Smith & Wesson, Blanks Instead of a Magic Bullet—Nation’s No. 1 Gun Maker Signed a Deal to Promote Safety, but Is Still a Legal Target,” Wall Street Journal , August 24, 2000; and Matt Bai, “A Gun Deal’s Fatal Wound: As a Landmark Pact to Control Guns Falls Apart, Smith & Wesson Takes the Hit,” Newsweek , February 5, 2001.
CHAPTER 17
To describe the attempt on Gaston Glock’s life and its aftermath, I relied on Veonique Poujol, “Don’t Shoot the Pianist,” Luxemburger Land , January 18, 2002; Gaenor Lipson, “Hard Lesson for Plasticity Tycoon,” Sunday Times (South Africa) , November 24, 2002; “Luxembourg Holds Suspected Mastermind of Bid to Kill Gunmaker Glock,” Reuters, March 12, 2003; Dyan Machan, “Top Gun,” Forbes , March 31, 2003; “Court Re-convicts Two in Gun-Maker Murder Trial,” Reuters, January 11, 2005, and Paul M. Barrett, Brian Grow, and Jack Ewing, “Glock’s Secret Path to Profits,” Business Week , September 21, 2009.
CHAPTER 18
For background on Haider and his activities in the United States, I relied on Frank Litsky, “From One Marathon to Another for Victors,” New York Times , November 9, 1999; Alison Smale, “A Rightist Leader Stirs Tepid Dissent, and Assent,” New York Times , December 6, 1999; Clyde Haberman, “Top Honoree at King Event Is Surprising,” New York Times , January 6, 2000; Rick Brand, “Hillary Slams Austrian Leader,” Newsday , January 29, 2000; David Herszenhorn, “Giuliani Outlines Some Foreign Policy Views from Austria to the West Bank,” New York Times , February 2, 2000; Susan Crabtree, “Hatch, RNC Chairman Drawn into Giuliani Controversy,” Roll Call , February 3, 2000; Nicholas Kulish, “Jorge Haider, Austrian Rightist, Is Dead at 58,” New York Times , October 12, 2008; and Paul M. Barrett, Brian Grow, and Jack Ewing, “Glock’s Secret Path to Profits,” Business Week , September 21, 2009.
CHAPTER 19
For my discussion of semiautomatics and gun control, I relied on Mark A. R. Kleiman’s excellent When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009), especially pp. 8–15 and 136–148. For the gun-control perspective, I read Tom Diaz’s Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America , especially pp. 1–16 and 83–84; Dennis A. Henigan’s Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy , especially pp. 1–12 and 37–73; and Josh Sugarmann, Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns , especially pp. ix–xvii and 1–11. Criminologists’ difficulty in explaining crime rates is discussed trenchantly in Shaila Dewan, “The Real Murder Mystery? It’s the Low Crime Rate,” New York Times , August 2, 2009. Background on the Virginia Tech killings can be found in Bill McKelway and Peter Bacque, “Killer Bought Handgun, Ammo Last Month: Roanoke Shop Owner Says Sales to Cho Didn’t Raise Any Suspicions,” Richmond Times-Dispatch , April 18, 2007; Jerry Markon and Sari Horowitz, “Va. Tech Killer’s Motives Pursued: Some Actions During Rampage Still a Mystery,” Washington Post , April 26, 2007; and Jerry Adler, “Story of a Gun: It’s Sleek, Light, and Frighteningly Lethal. How the 9mm Became the Weapon of Choice for Cops and Criminals, Civilians and Soldiers—and a Very Sick Young Man in Virginia,” Newsweek , April 30, 2007. For background on the Diallo shooting, I relied on Jodi Wilgoren, “Fatal Police Barrage Renews Debate Over Safety of Semiautomatics,” New York Times , February 7, 1999, and Jane Fritsch, “The Diallo Verdict: The Overview—4 Officers in Diallo Shooting Are Acquitted of All Charges,” New York Times , February 26, 2000. On the Sean Bell case, I read Michael Wilson, “50 Shots Fired, and the Experts Offer a Theory,” New York Times , November 27, 2006; Clyde Haberman, “Yes, There’s a Trial, but There Are Also Broader Statistics,” New York Times , February 29, 2008; and Michael Wilson, “Police Guns Make Jarring Evidence at Detectives’ Trial,” New York Times , March 6, 2008. Contagious shooting is addressed by Ray Rivera and Al Baker in “Bystander Injured in Harlem Episode Cites ‘Contagious Shooting’ in Plan to Sue,” New York Times , August 11, 2010. The Time piece on ATF crime gun traces is Elaine Shannon, “America’s Most Wanted Guns,” which ran on July 12, 2002.