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Ghost guns : hobbyists, hackers, and the homemade weapons revolution / Mark A. Tallman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 232 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781440865657
  • 1440865655
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ghost gunsDDC classification:
  • 683.4 23
LOC classification:
  • TS535 .T35 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: a routine shooting, why should we care about homemade weapons? -- Printing Pandora's box, how the 4th industrial revolution is transforming security -- Teaching iron to fly, artisanal, industrial, and neo-artisanal gunmaking -- The global gun, how DIY small arms are manufactured and used around the world -- The substitution effect, will criminals and terrorists make their own guns? -- Scanning darkly, how weapons screening can detect ghost guns (but fail to stop terrorists) -- Land of the gun, politics and practicalities of DIY guns in America -- "You'd be better off brain-scanning people", how the industrial devolution complicates weapon control -- Surveillance capitalism and "corporate gun control", enter the tech vigilantes -- Un-inventing the wheel, weapons and crime control in a post-industrial age.
Summary: "With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing it"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a routine shooting, why should we care about homemade weapons? -- Printing Pandora's box, how the 4th industrial revolution is transforming security -- Teaching iron to fly, artisanal, industrial, and neo-artisanal gunmaking -- The global gun, how DIY small arms are manufactured and used around the world -- The substitution effect, will criminals and terrorists make their own guns? -- Scanning darkly, how weapons screening can detect ghost guns (but fail to stop terrorists) -- Land of the gun, politics and practicalities of DIY guns in America -- "You'd be better off brain-scanning people", how the industrial devolution complicates weapon control -- Surveillance capitalism and "corporate gun control", enter the tech vigilantes -- Un-inventing the wheel, weapons and crime control in a post-industrial age.

"With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing it"-- Provided by publisher.

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