The Last Gun: Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It

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Tom Diaz's first book, Making a Killing (The New Press, 1999), is widely considered to be the most influential anti-gun book ever written. It helped to spark a national media campaign around the machinations of the gun industry and the wave of violence it spawned. Picking up where Making a Killing left off, The Last Gun looks at how the gun industry has changed in the intervening decade, how gun violence has changed in step with industry trends and why the time is ripe for a new political effort to attack gun violence at its source: the guns themselves.

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"In his eminently readable style, mixing science and anecdote, Diaz shows how our leaders have created gun policies that are good for the gun industry but horrific for our nation. He also describes solutions worthy of the name. What a timely book!"
David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

"Diaz once again reveals what the firearms-industrial complex doesnt want the public to know, while refusing to spare politicians and the media for their complicity in the cover-upThis book should be required reading for policy makers at every level and for every American fed up with the massacre of 30,000 people a year."
Andrew Fois, Deputy Attorney General, Public Safety Division, Washington, D.C.

"Through a gripping narrative that combines plenty of factual data with compelling storytelling, Diaz makes the convincing case that the gun industry is knowingly trading American lives for profitsAfter the tragedy of Newtown, if you are going to read one book to understand the current political fight in Washington, this is it."
Joshua Horwitz, Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Author Bio

Tom Diaz is a writer, lawyer, and public speaker on the gun industry and gun control issues. Formerly a senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, he has been featured on MSNBC, on NPR, and in other national media. His books include "Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America" (The New Press), and he is currently working on a book about his family and American immigration policy. He lives in Washington, D.C.