The NRA, the brady campaign, & the politics of gun litigation

Suing The Gun Industry: A Battle at The Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 152-175

  Lytton, Timothy D ^a  

^a ALBANY LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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