Introduction: a shooting in Faubourg Marigny -- Mission impossible: assembling the team -- Trails of blood: guns passed from hand to hand to killer -- The sleeping giant: and its ad agency -- Moneymakers: mandarins of the gun -- Washington snipers: a tobacco haze -- The guns of April: tragedy in Littleton -- High noon: Baker boys take on Congress -- The summer of blood: and the trouble with Colt -- Scences from the barricades: from Rosie O'Donnell to a courtroom in Ohio -- Fresh horses: the housing secretary's posse -- Riding into the valley of death: Smith & Wesson attempt to be independent -- Mobbed: the NRA destroys any hope of compromise -- Election fever: mothers take to the streets and a child goes to jail -- On the front lines: the end of one beginning -- Terror gallops on: from IRA to Al Qaeda -- Epilogue: a death and the changing of the guard.
