Library Guides: Gun Control: Books

LC Subject Headings

Many books on the topic will be under the subject heading Gun Control or its narrower terms. Some subject headings that may be useful include:

The main collection of the library has a variety of books that may pertain to gun control. Try looking at some of these books, and related titles:

Gun control in the United States : a reference handbook

Author: Gregg Lee Carter

Published: 2006

ISBN: 1851097600

Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America

Author: Adam Winkler

PublishedL 2011

ISBN: 0393077411

Gun control

Editor: Lauri S. Friedman

Published: 2009

ISBN: 073774264X

The gun control debate : you decide

Editor: Lee Nisbet

Published: 2001

ISBN: 1573928615

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Guns and violence : the English experience

Author: Joyce Lee Malcolm

Published: 2002

ISBN: 0674007530

Can gun control work?

Author: James B. Jacobs

Published: 2002

ISBN: 0195145623

Firearms control: a study of armed crime and firearms control in England and Wales.

Author: Colin Greenwood

Published: 1972

ISBN: 0710074352

Call number: HV8059 .G77