CHAPTER 9

On the decline of the American gun industry in the 1980s, see Resa W. King, “US Gunmakers: The Casualties Pile Up—Depressed Sales, Costly Insurance, and Foreign Competition Keep Claiming Victims,” Business Week, May 19, 1986; Kirk Johnson, “Gun Valley Tries to Adapt to the Winds of Change,” New York Times, March 21, 1989; and Henry Allen, “Uncle Sam Can’t Shoot Straight: Our Crooks Use Uzis, Our Cops Glocks—Even the Ammo’s Imported,” Washington Post, March 25, 1990. For my discussion of Smith & Wesson, I relied on “Appointments: Smith & Wesson Corp.,” Financial Times, December 10, 1987; Robert W. Hunnicutt, “SHOT Show 1990,” American Rifleman, March, 1990; Charles E. Petty, “Smith & Wesson: In-Store Promotions,” Shooting Industry, May 1, 1991; Greg Cox, “A Call to Arms: Facing Tough Competition, Smith & Wesson’s New CEO Presses Ahead with Sweeping Changes,” Business Week, November 1, 1992; and William Freebairn, “Smith & Wesson at 150: Springfield Gunmaker Defined by Controversy, Innovation,” Springfield Union-News, August 4, 2002. For this chapter I again referred to Dyan Machan’s March 31, 2003, Forbes interview, “Top Gun,” and to Wills’s Illustrated History of Weaponry, pp. 134–137.