This inspiring book, Lawyers, Guns, and Money by Carol X. Vinzant, recounts the heroic efforts of Tom McDermott, a lawyer and victim of the infamous Colin Ferguson rampage on the Long Island Railroad, to take on the gun industry. He is among the leaders of an innovative and promising strategy to circumvent the NRA's political power and courts constrained by interpretations of the Second Amendment. Through civil action he hits the gun companies where it hurts most: the bottom line. Making insurance difficult for manufacturers to get, he has helped reduce the number of cheap hand guns, "Saturday Night Specials," often used in crime. This is a riveting account of tragedy turned into action, and how the law can be used to defend victims rather than enrich corporations.

This book organizes, explains and analyzes the many laws and best practices in order to ensure that the reader can properly establish and maintain gun trusts and other entities and arrangements to comply with current federal law, and has been written to be understood by both experienced lawyers and gun owners who may not be familiar with legal terminology and arrangements. It can be used as a guide for lawyers who are fluent in trusts, but not gun law, and to provide basic and practical information and guidance for lawyers who are fluent in gun law but do not have special expertise in trust and estate law, with specific information that a trustee or any advisor to a trustee of a gun trust would need to know.

Covers carry laws nationwide, highlighting common points of law for each state and the District of Columbia, so firearms carriers can clearly understand how each jurisdiction differs.