The Way of the Gun
A Bloody Journey into the World of Firearms

This is an awesome book. I interpreted for the author at a journalists' workshop, and because I was impressed by him I ended up buying his book. It is a thoroughly comprehensive study of guns, in all their aspects - from the manufacturers, the dealers, the customers, to the people who use them, and......more

The 'Gun Baby Gun' title is frankly quite awful and dates the book to the release of Gone Baby Gone - but that's probably one of the only serious knocks against this sprawling, ambitious - almost too ambitious - book. Iain Overton takes on the almost impossible task of making sense of the impact that......more

Judging from other reader’s comments I seem to be one of the few who completed this book (and I certainly understand why). I continued reading in hopes of some epiphany from the author explaining America's gun lust but short of some astounding stats on the numbers of weapons in circulation and the r......more

Gun Baby Gun is an outstanding achievement. In a world of drones, stealth bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles, the author Iain Overton is perhaps the first journalist to trace the path of the humble gun, from factory to soldier, police officer to criminal. This is narrative history, a ge......more

What an immensely bleak and disheartening read. You can't help but close this book full of anger towards all those who deliberately perpertrate this endless cycle of violence - the gun manufacturers concerned only with profits and markets, the politicians who take lobbyist money and vote against gun......more