ContentsList of contributors vii1 Introduction: gun proliferation, society, firearm-enabled violence and keydebates 1Peter SquiresPART I SUPPLY-SIDE ISSUES2 The role of criminal armourers in illegal firearm supply: a UK perspective 33Helen Williamson3 An evaluation of gun violence, gun homicides and firearm supply inTobago, the 'Capital of Paradise' 53Wendell C. Wallace4 The impact of illicit firearms on the convergence of crime and armedviolence in post-conflict states 69Georgina Sinclair, Rohan Burdett and Martin VerrierPART II COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS5 Comparative perspectives on firearm death and injury: the US, Canada, theUK, and Australia 92Wendy Cukier and Vivien Leung6 The ambivalence asymmetry: comparing the heterogeneity of gun attitudesbetween gun control supporters and opponents 117Harel Shapira, Ken-Hou Lin, Patrick Sheehan and Chen Liang7 A comparative analysis of US and Central and Eastern European gunregulations 134Alexei Anisin8 Authorizing murder: understanding the effects of Brazil's gun controlreforms on criminal groups and far-right militants 147Gabriel Funari and Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiPART III GENDER MATTERS9 Purchasing power? Women, violence and the US firearms market 164Peter Squires10 Man with a gun: masculinities, firearms and violence in global context 183Tatiana Moura and Gary Barker11 Firearms and violence against women and girls 197Sarah Watson12 Protecting the narrative: the NRA's strategic inclusion of Black women ingun culture 213Mary KetteringPART IV LIVING WITH GUNS AND VIOLENCE13 This is (not) a drill: active shooter classroom drills and affect theory 230Charles Fruehling Springwood and Irving Epstein14 Safe spaces or armed assemblies? How gun shows operate in the state ofIndiana 245Callie Cleckner15 Unsafe, uncertain or uneasy? Complex correlates of firearm attitudes andbehaviours in the United States 258Tara D. Warner16 Mass shootings in the United States 278Frederic Lemieux17 Caged birds and wandering stars: a medical anthropology of gunshotwounds, retained bullets, and paralysis 291Jason Pribilsky18 Covering massacres, the fog of war and Nazi zombies: a novelmethodological approach to reporting gun violence 307Iain OvertonPART V ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONS AND GUN CONTROLS19 Firearms marketing, police carbines, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 325R. Blake Brown20 Policing firearms: the evolution of tactics and strategies 341Simon Sneddon and Simon Feist21 Responding to the threat of 'ghost guns' and illicit firearm andammunition manufacture 362Rachel S. Bolton-King and Helen Poole22 Exploring new methodologies to improve the understanding of gunviolence: the case of artificial intelligence - the Gunviolence.eu IncidentMonitor 383Astrid de Schutter, Diederik Cops, Tom De Smedt and Nils Duquet.