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Chicks with Guns[edit source | edit] though an offhand name, it came just as a working title that was popular with the models, and just seemed to stay with the book. Originally supposed to be a book twelve to twenty pictures of women and their firearms, it turned into a book of 80 pictures that had been narrowed from over 280. Each of the women are posing with a firearm that in some manner has an importance to them, and their lives. The women pictured range from everyday house wives to police officers and even military women. This book showcases how everyday women, ranging in age from about 8 to 85, use a firearm in their lives. They are shown as everyday women, some single, some married, or even widowed, and who just want to protect their children, or they may be protective service members that are in the military, or members of the police forces that protect our towns. They are described individually by short paragraphs that tell a synopsis of the woman, and the firearm(s) she is modeling. Photographer Lindsay McCrum hoped through her photo documentary book that she could make the world more aware of the 15 to 20 million women in the United States that own, and use firearms. The book comes at a pivotal moment in history as the heat of the gun regulation debate gets turned up.This book was published in 2011 in the midst of the controversy of gun control. McCrum says that her intent was not to instigate the controversy, but to just to highlight the sheer power and beauty of what modern firearm owning women look like. "I found the women in the book to be an impressive group.  Whether they were competitive shooters, hunters, collectors or had firearms for self-defense, they were focused, responsible and self assured.  I was also struck by how accomplished and capable they all were." . Lindsay McCrum[edit source | edit] A fine art professor from New York, she earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University, and then later a masters degree in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Though she trained mainly in oil painting, she was well-versed in all aspects of the fine arts realm. She decided to work exclusively with photographic portraits in 2003, and has stayed with this line of artistic work since. Her work has been featured in galleries world-wide, including Galerie Schuster, Berlin.