Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas

Endnotes: The NRA’s Hemispheric Reach

Below are the endnotes from “The NRA’s Hemispheric Reach” by Wendy Cukier (Spring 2013 AQ.)

  1. Jasna Lazarevic and Christelle Rigua, “Anexes 8.2 and 8.3: Major Exporters and Importers,” Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets, 1-21, <http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2012/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2012-Chapter-08-Annexe-8.2-8.3-EN.pdf>.
  2. Scott Meslow, “The Fight Over Gun Control: By the Numbers,” The Week, December 18, 2012.
  3. Walter Hickey, “How The Gun Industry Funnels Tens of Millions of Dollars to the NRA,” Business Insider, January 16, 2013, <http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-industry-funds-nra-2013-1#ixzz2NdYFeNIX>.
  4. “Chief Blair would rather cut stations than frontline officers,” CBC News, January 8, 2013, <http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/01/08/police-chief-blair-interview.html>.
  5. U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges, GAO-09-709, Jun 18, 2009, <www.gao.gov/products/GAO-09-709>.
  1. “GAO Reports on Arms Trafficking In Mexico,” NRA-ILA, June 19, 2013, <www.nraila.org/legislation/federal-legislation/2009/gao-reports-on-arms-trafficking-in-mexi.aspx?s=%22Mexican+President+Felipe+Calderon%22&st=&ps=>.
  2. “Editorial: Supporting Mexican Drug Cartels,” Ponte Al Dia,  January 7, 2011, <www.pontealdia.com/editorial/editorial-supporting-mexican-drug-cartels.html>.
  3. “IRS form 990,” National Rifle Association, 2010, <http://ia701205.us.archive.org/32/items/NationalRifleAssociation2010IrsForm990/2010_NRA_IRS990.pdf>.
  4. Charlton Heston, “Speech to the BCWF Convention Prince George, British Columbia,” April 13, 2000, <http://members.shaw.ca/haakon7/variety/comment/heston2.htm>.
  5. R. v. Wiles, 3 S.C.R. 895, 2005 SCC 84.
  6. 30-minute Cable TV Infomercial, National Rifle Association, 2000.
  7. Rob Wildeboer, “Under the gun: Why the NRA’s political tactics don’t work in Canada,” WBEZ, August 5, 2011, <www.wbez.org/story/under-gun-why-nras-political-tactics-dont-work-canada-90162>.
  8. “Here’s What Others Have to Say about the CSSA,” Canadian Shooting Sports Association, <http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/endorsements/Endorsements.html>.
  9. Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), “Youth and firearms in Canada,”  Jan 30, 2012, <www.cps.ca/en/documents/position/youth-and-firearms>.
  10. Wayne LaPierre, “Canada’s Reversing The ‘Irreversible Ratchet’ Of Gun Control,” Standing Guard, March 2010, <http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/2010/03/NRA_article_Mar_2010.pdf>.
  11. David Morton, “Gunning for the World,” Foreign Policy, January 13, 2006, <http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/gunning-world>.
  12. A. Edwards and J. Sheptycki, “Third Wave Criminology: guns, crime and social order,” Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9(3) (2009): 379-397.
  13. “Brazilians reject gun sales ban,” BBC News, October 24, 2005, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4368598.stm>.
  14. Peter Lucas, “Disarming Brazil: Lessons and Challenges,” NACLA Report on the Americas, 41(2) (2006): 27-31.
  15. Thomas McKenna,Crime Control Not Gun Control in Brazil,” National Society for Tradition, Family and Prosperity, August 13, 2003, <www.tfp.org/current-campaigns/2003/crime-control-not-gun-control-in-brazil.html>.
  16. Kelly Hearn, “As Brazil Votes to Ban Guns, NRA Joins the Fight,” Nation, October 21, 2005.
  17. Bob Clifford, The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
  18. “Brazil lawmakers to propose referendum on gun law,” BBC News, April 13, 2011.
  19. Bill Brassard, “An Organization That Represents 100 Million Sport Shooters Worldwide,” National Shooting Sports Foundation, March 18, 2010, <www.nssfblog.com/an-organization-that-represents-100-million-sport-shooters-worldwide/>.
  20.  “The Massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique,” Macleans, July 1, 1999.
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