Erik Larson

Follows the journey of a handgun, from its manufacture through its violent odyssey into the hands of a disturbed teenager who uses it to kill a teacher, and raises painful questions about the legal and cultural realities of firearms. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Story of a Gun

Lethal Passage

Ben Nathan

Interesting and horrifying at the same time. Luckily, this is pretty old and things have changed a fair amount since then but not enough. I am glad I read it but really sad I did at the same time because rather than accurate assessment of our society, I wish this sort of thing were a type of fiction or long past history.

Lethal Passage The Story of a Gun