Gun Notes: Research on Guns

by Michael R. Weisser

This contains contains 9 scholarly articles about guns, complete with footnotes and explanatory graphics. Each article is based on primary research consisting of data either published by law-enforcement and medical organizations, or national surveys conducted by the author.Michael R. Weisser holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has taught at CCNY, University of California, University of South Carolina and Columbia University. He has published academic monographs with the University of Chicago Press and Basic Books. The studies in this book cover important issues in the gun debate, including how we measure gun violence, the validity of published data used by researchers in the field and whether our understanding of gun violence aligns with the data that is used to support current research. The book gives readers an opportunity to understand the major issues in this field, as well as how different scholars discuss both their research and the research of others.

169 pages, Paperback

Published February 27, 2019

About the author

We always had books around the house and I loved to read. My favorite author when I was kid was the Civil War historian, Bruce Catton. Then in my 30s I started reading spy novels, particularly Eric Ambler and others like him, followed by John LeCarre and others like him, such as Downing, Kerr and Furst. In my 30s I also discovered the Swedish and Scandinavian crime writers - Wahloo, then Mankell, now Nesbo.
I published my first book in 1977, then two more in 1980 and 1983. All were non-fiction. I stopped writing for many years because I wouldn't write if I couldn't get published and it was too difficult to deal with agents, editors, publishers, etc. Then I started doing some short pieces on the internet and finally discovered self-publishing of books on the web. So now I'm writing again.
I have been in the gun business for 35 years and have sold more than 40,000 guns and also trained more than 2,000 men and women in shooting techniques and gun safety. So I figured it was time to write a book about guns. I enjoyed writing it and I hope you'll enjoy reading it. I also do blogs about guns for the Huffington Post.