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 -- Scenes 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.
