Read this because I was considering using it for a class I’m teaching this fall. It was fine - I’ll probably use a few chapters but definitely not the whole book. It was more focused on the legal drama of everything (which is probably my fault for expecting a lawyer to write a book that wasn’t focused on the legal drama), but those parts of the book failed to hold my attention. I wished he went into a big more detail on the historical components of gun control laws though! The main reason I won’t be using this book though is that it fails to provide any sort of worthwhile racial/class-based analysis regarding this debate. Also, in the chapters about the colonial era & “the Wild West” he did not mention once the role that firearms played in the American genocide of indigenous people–a gap that no self-respecting gun studies scholar would leave