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Arming and disarming a history of gun control in Canada / R. Blake Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442665590
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV7439 .A765 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
2 "The government must disarm all the Indians": Controlling Firearms from Confederation to the Late-Nineteenth Century -- 3 "A rifle in the hands of every able-bodied man in the Dominion of Canada under proper auspices": Arming Britons and Disarming Immigrants from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Great War -- 4 "Hysterical legislation": Suppressing Gun Ownership from the First to the Second World Wars -- 5 Angry White Men: Resistance to Gun Control in Canada, 1946-1980 -- 6 Flexing the Liberal State's Muscles: The Montreal Massacre and the 1995 Firearms Act, 1980-2006 -- Conclusion.
Subject: Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada's historical and contemporary 'gun culture.'
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Includes bibliographies and index.

1 "Every man has a right to the possession of his musket": Regulating Firearms before Confederation -- 2 "The government must disarm all the Indians": Controlling Firearms from Confederation to the Late-Nineteenth Century -- 3 "A rifle in the hands of every able-bodied man in the Dominion of Canada under proper auspices": Arming Britons and Disarming Immigrants from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Great War -- 4 "Hysterical legislation": Suppressing Gun Ownership from the First to the Second World Wars -- 5 Angry White Men: Resistance to Gun Control in Canada, 1946-1980 -- 6 Flexing the Liberal State's Muscles: The Montreal Massacre and the 1995 Firearms Act, 1980-2006 -- Conclusion.

Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada's historical and contemporary 'gun culture.'

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