The Last Gun: How 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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"A blistering takedown of the gun business and politics."
The Boston Globe

"A gripping narrative that combines plenty of factual data with compelling storytelling."
Joshua Horowitz, executive director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

"Tom Diaz is one of the most insightful observers of the gun industry and the larger gun debate in America today."
Robert J. Spitzer, author of The Politics of Gun Control

"Diaz knows his subject inside and out and, like the prophets of old, hurls his arguments from the mountaintop with terrible precision."
Andrew Gumbel, journalist and author of Steal This Vote

Author Bio

Tom Diaz is a writer, lawyer, and public speaker on the gun industry and gun control. Formerly senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, he has been featured on MSNBC, NPR, and other national media. His books include "Making a Killing" (The New Press). He lives in Washington, D.C.