Heller With A Gun

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Domain
ISBN 13 : 0553899201
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heller with a Gun written by Louis L'Amour and published by Domain. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his concern. Then King Mabry showed up. Although Tom didn’t like the way he looked at Janice, he could see that Mabry made Barker uneasy. So Tom invited Mabry to join them. Tom was right to be worried, because Barker had a plan. He knew that the wagons carried something more than actors and scenery. He and his men were going to steal it any way they could. And that included murder.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heller with a Gun written by Louis L'Amour and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though King Mabry is neither proud nor ashamed of his skill as a gunfighter, he knows when he tracks a killer into the wilderness that his guns are his only ally.

Author : Adam Winkler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082296
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America written by Adam Winkler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural divide. Using the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller—which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation’s capital—as a springboard, Winkler brilliantly weaves together the dramatic stories of gun-rights advocates and gun-control lobbyists, providing often unexpected insights into the venomous debate that now cleaves our nation.

Author : Basil Collier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the V-weapons, 1944-45 written by Basil Collier and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Korwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heller Case written by Alan Korwin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noah Shusterman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944627
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armed Citizens written by Noah Shusterman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in the colonial era. America has long been a heavily armed, and racially divided, society, yet few citizens understand either why militias appealed to the founding fathers or the role that militias played in North American rebellions, in which they often functioned as repressive—and racist—domestic forces. In Armed Citizens, Noah Shusterman explains for a general reader what eighteenth-century militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state. Suggesting that the question was never whether there was a right to bear arms, but rather, who had the right to bear arms, Shusterman begins with the lessons that the founding generation took from the history of Ancient Rome and Machiavelli’s reinterpretation of those myths during the Renaissance. He then turns to the rise of France’s professional army during seventeenth-century Europe and the fear that it inspired in England. Shusterman shows how this fear led British writers to begin praising citizens’ militias, at the same time that colonial America had come to rely on those militias as a means of defense and as a system to police enslaved peoples. Thus the start of the Revolution allowed Americans to portray their struggle as a war of citizens against professional soldiers, leading the authors of the Constitution to place their trust in citizen soldiers and a "well-regulated militia," an idea that persists to this day.

Author : Brian Doherty
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 193399598X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gun Control on Trial written by Brian Doherty and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2008, the Supreme Court had its first opportunity in seven decades to decide a question at the heart of one of America’s most impassioned debates: Do Americans have a right to possess guns? Gun Control on Trial tells the full story of the Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which ended the District’s gun ban. With exclusive behind-the-scenes access throughout the process, author Brian Doherty is uniquely positioned to delve into the issues of this monumental case and provides compelling looks at the inside stories, including the plaintiffs’ fight for the right to protect their lives, the activist lawyers who worked to affirm that right, and the forces who fought to stop the case.

Author : Joseph Blocher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107158699
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Positive Second Amendment written by Joseph Blocher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first comprehensive post-Heller account of the Second Amendment as constitutional law - dispelling many myths along the way.

Author : Saul Cornell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558499942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Amendment on Trial written by Saul Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbia's stringent gun control laws as a violation of the Second Amendment. Reversing almost seventy years of settled precedent, the high court reinterpreted the meaning of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" to affirm an individual right to own a gun in the home for purposes of self-defense. The landmark ruling not only opened a new chapter in the contentious history of gun rights and gun control but also revealed both the strengths and problems of originalist constitutional theory and jurisprudence. This volume brings together some of the best scholarship on the Heller case, with essays by legal scholars and historians representing a range of ideological viewpoints and applying different interpretive frameworks. Following the editors' introduction, which describes the issues involved and the arguments on each side, the essays are organized into four sections. The first includes two of the most important historical briefs filed in the case, while the second offers different views of the role of originalist theory. Section three presents opposing interpretations of the ruling and its relationship to modern constitutional doctrine. The final section explores historical research post-Heller, including new findings on patterns of gun ownership in colonial and Revolutionary America. In addition to the editors, contributors include Nelson Lund, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Jack Rakove, Reva B. Siegel, Cass R. Sunstein, Kevin M. Sweeney, and J. Harvie Wilkinson III.

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307950476
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dog Stars written by Peter Heller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Hig's wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.