Vote Gun

Joseph Blocher, coauthor The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller:
In Vote Gun, Patrick Charles sheds light on the historical origins of the gun debate, drawing on painstaking archival research and challenging received wisdom about the historical role of the “gun lobby.” This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the balance of gun rights and regulation in the United States.

Kristin Goss, coauthor of The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know:
Vote Gun challenges the NRA’s narrative of its own history, including that it has the power to swing elections, as well as the conventional wisdom that the NRA only became a fierce gun lobby in the late 1970s. The book is an important history of the role of the gun rights movement, as well as the evolution of gun politics and policy, throughout the first eight decades of the twentieth century.