Paul Barrett - Glock - The Rise of America's Gun

CHAPTER 17

To describe the attempt on Gaston Glock’s life and its aftermath, I relied on Veonique Poujol, “Don’t Shoot the Pianist,” Luxemburger Land , January 18, 2002; Gaenor Lipson, “Hard Lesson for Plasticity Tycoon,” Sunday Times (South Africa) , November 24, 2002; “Luxembourg Holds Suspected Mastermind of Bid to Kill Gunmaker Glock,” Reuters, March 12, 2003; Dyan Machan, “Top Gun,” Forbes , March 31, 2003; “Court Re-convicts Two in Gun-Maker Murder Trial,” Reuters, January 11, 2005, and Paul M. Barrett, Brian Grow, and Jack Ewing, “Glock’s Secret Path to Profits,” Business Week , September 21, 2009.

CHAPTER 18

For background on Haider and his activities in the United States, I relied on Frank Litsky, “From One Marathon to Another for Victors,” New York Times , November 9, 1999; Alison Smale, “A Rightist Leader Stirs Tepid Dissent, and Assent,” New York Times , December 6, 1999; Clyde Haberman, “Top Honoree at King Event Is Surprising,” New York Times , January 6, 2000; Rick Brand, “Hillary Slams Austrian Leader,” Newsday , January 29, 2000; David Herszenhorn, “Giuliani Outlines Some Foreign Policy Views from Austria to the West Bank,” New York Times , February 2, 2000; Susan Crabtree, “Hatch, RNC Chairman Drawn into Giuliani Controversy,” Roll Call , February 3, 2000; Nicholas Kulish, “Jorge Haider, Austrian Rightist, Is Dead at 58,” New York Times , October 12, 2008; and Paul M. Barrett, Brian Grow, and Jack Ewing, “Glock’s Secret Path to Profits,” Business Week , September 21, 2009.

CHAPTER 19

For my discussion of semiautomatics and gun control, I relied on Mark A. R. Kleiman’s excellent When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009), especially pp. 8–15 and 136–148. For the gun-control perspective, I read Tom Diaz’s Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America , especially pp. 1–16 and 83–84; Dennis A. Henigan’s Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy , especially pp. 1–12 and 37–73; and Josh Sugarmann, Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns , especially pp. ix–xvii and 1–11. Criminologists’ difficulty in explaining crime rates is discussed trenchantly in Shaila Dewan, “The Real Murder Mystery? It’s the Low Crime Rate,” New York Times , August 2, 2009. Background on the Virginia Tech killings can be found in Bill McKelway and Peter Bacque, “Killer Bought Handgun, Ammo Last Month: Roanoke Shop Owner Says Sales to Cho Didn’t Raise Any Suspicions,” Richmond Times-Dispatch , April 18, 2007; Jerry Markon and Sari Horowitz, “Va. Tech Killer’s Motives Pursued: Some Actions During Rampage Still a Mystery,” Washington Post , April 26, 2007; and Jerry Adler, “Story of a Gun: It’s Sleek, Light, and Frighteningly Lethal. How the 9mm Became the Weapon of Choice for Cops and Criminals, Civilians and Soldiers—and a Very Sick Young Man in Virginia,” Newsweek , April 30, 2007. For background on the Diallo shooting, I relied on Jodi Wilgoren, “Fatal Police Barrage Renews Debate Over Safety of Semiautomatics,” New York Times , February 7, 1999, and Jane Fritsch, “The Diallo Verdict: The Overview—4 Officers in Diallo Shooting Are Acquitted of All Charges,” New York Times , February 26, 2000. On the Sean Bell case, I read Michael Wilson, “50 Shots Fired, and the Experts Offer a Theory,” New York Times , November 27, 2006; Clyde Haberman, “Yes, There’s a Trial, but There Are Also Broader Statistics,” New York Times , February 29, 2008; and Michael Wilson, “Police Guns Make Jarring Evidence at Detectives’ Trial,” New York Times , March 6, 2008. Contagious shooting is addressed by Ray Rivera and Al Baker in “Bystander Injured in Harlem Episode Cites ‘Contagious Shooting’ in Plan to Sue,” New York Times , August 11, 2010. The Time piece on ATF crime gun traces is Elaine Shannon, “America’s Most Wanted Guns,” which ran on July 12, 2002.

CHAPTER 20

The FBI’s twenty-five-year memorial is described in Ari Odzer and Brian Hamacher, “Memorial for FBI Agents Killed in Miami,” Associated Press, April 11, 2011. The positive reviews of Glock’s new guns are from Payton Miller, “Glock 17 Gen 4,” Guns & Ammo , January 2011; Dave Spaulding, “A Handier New Glock,” Handguns , December 2010/January 2011; and Mark Walters, “Top 10 Concealed Carry Guns,” Human Events , December 7, 2010. Gun sales in Arizona after the Tucson shooting are described in Michael Riley, “Arizona Shootings Trigger Surge in Glock Sales Amid Fear of Ban,” Bloomberg ( Bloomberg.com ), January 12, 2011.

Paul M. Barrett, a journalist for twenty-five years, writes feature articles for Bloomberg Businessweek , where parts of this book originated. He is the author of two earlier books: American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion (2007) and The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America (1999).