Local Run on Guns,” Associated Press, December 20, 1993; Michael Arena, “Packing Heat in a Hurry,” Newsday , December 20, 1993; Robert Davis, “Gun Ban Triggers Sales Rush: President ‘Finest Gun Salesman in History,’ ” USA Today , May 10, 1994; Jeannette Regalado and Tina Daunt, “Possible Ban Ignites Rush on Area Gun Shops,” Los Angeles Times , May 12, 1994; Scott Shane, “Curbs on Guns Are Growing, But So Are Sales,” Baltimore Sun , May 15, 1994; and Bob von Sternberg, “NRA,” Minneapolis Star-Tribune , May 25, 1994.
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Reports about early problems with accidental discharges include: Gilbert Jimenez, “Police Chief Red Faced After Gun Discharges,” Chicago Sun-Times , December 20, 1989; Kathleen Ovack, “Gun’s ‘Hair Trigger’ Under Fire,” St. Petersburg Times , February 19, 1990; Dan Huff, “Accidents Happen, But All Too Often with the Glock 19,” Arizona Daily Star , November 20, 1990; and “Glock Pistol Under Fire in S.C.: Is It Simple and Safe or a Dangerous Hair-Trigger,” Associated Press, December 13, 1994. Washington’s transition to the Glock is described in Rene Sanchez, “D.C. Officers Get 9mm Pistols for ‘Parity with Drug Dealers,’ ” Washington Post , March 4, 1989; Elsa Walsh, “D.C. Police Pistol Gets Poor Safety Marks,” Washington Post , April 8, 1989; Jeff Leen, Jo Craven, David Jackson, and Sari Horwitz, “D.C. Police Lead Nation in Shootings: Lack of Training, Supervision Implicated as Key Factors,” Washington Post , November 15, 1998; and Jeff Leen and Sari Horwitz, “Armed and Unready: City Pays for Failure to Train Officers with Sophisticated Weapon,” Washington Post , November 18, 1998. To describe the Grant suit in Knoxville, I relied on daily coverage by the Knoxville News Sentinel , June 13 through June 21, 1994. Massad Ayoob discussed the Glock in “The Glock Pistol: Perspective from the Field” and “Glock’s Perfection Questioned on the Street: Enter the New York Trigger,” GUNS , September 1990.
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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.
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For this chapter, I drew some material from Dyan Machan’s interview, “Top Gun,” Forbes , March 31, 2003.
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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 ).
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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 Pistol: 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.
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