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Pathfinder: Gun Control
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
SCOPE: Gun control is the efforts to regulate the manufacture, sale, possession, and use of various types of firearms, primarily handguns and semiautomatic rifles and shotguns. (Gottesman, Violence in America) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for students in locating library resources on the topic of gun control. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the types of materials available in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with gun control are listed in the Baddour
Library's online catalog under the following subject headings :
Gun
control United States
Firearms law and legislation United States
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher:
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
REF
HN90.V5 V5474 1999 Violence in America
REF HV7436.G8783 2002 Guns in American Society: An
Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law
Some of the representative books from the Circulating Collection that is located upstairs in the library:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Cothran, Helen.
Gun control: Opposing Viewpoints. Farmington
Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2003.
Henderson, Harry. Gun Control. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
Kleck, Gary. Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 2001.
Kopel, David B. Guns: Who Should Have Them? Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 1995.
Spitzer, Robert J. The Politics of Gun Control. Chatham, N.J: Chatham House, 1995.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of gun control are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB
SITES
Jurist: The Legal Education Network presents
a Guide to Gun Laws, Gun Control, & Gun Rights
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gunlaw.htm
O'Keefe Library St. Ambrose University Best Information on the Net
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo
Updated
11/08/2007
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