Introduction

1. The Middle Ages: Laws, Outlaws, and Crimes of Violence

2. The Tudor-Stuart Centuries: Revolution in Church, State, and Armaments

3. The Eighteenth Century: "Fruitful in the Inventions of Wickedness"

4. The Nineteenth Century: "An Era of Rare Success"

5. 1900-1953: The Government Takes Control

6. 1953-2000: Only the Criminals Have the Guns

7. More Guns More Crime or More Guns Less Crime? The American Case

8. The Right Equation

Appendix: Firearm Licences in England and Wales

Notes

Index

Joyce Lee Malcolm is Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law.

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