Information on the Firearms Industry

• An Agenda For Real Gun Control
  
  
• The False Hope of the "Smart" Gun
  
  
• Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids - Key Findings
  
  
• Firearms Industry Member Contributions to The NRA Foundation, 1994 and 1995
  
  
• Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act
  
  
• Cease Fire Fact Sheet
  
  
• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware Parties for Criminals Fact Sheet
  
  
• National Rifle Association And The Gun Industry Launch Double-Barreled Attack on Legal Rights of Gun Violence Victims

• VPC Statement on Wal-Mart Decision to Stop Gun Sales: “No Surprise” (04/14/2006)
  
  
• Number of Gun Dealers in U.S. Drops Almost 80 Percent—From 245,628 to 54,902—Since 1994, New Violence Policy Center (VPC) Report Reveals (03/08/2006)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center (VPC) Statement on U.S. House Passage of Bill Protecting the Unregulated Gun Industry (10/20/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center (VPC) Statement on Senate Passage of Gun Liability Bill (07/29/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center (VPC) Response to National Rifle Association Charges That VPC Misrepresented Beretta as a Foreign Gunmaker (07/26/2005)
  
  
• Senate Majority Leader Frist Says American Gun Companies at Risk if Congress Doesn't Pass Bill to Shield the Gun Industry from Lawsuits—But Cites Italian Gunmaker Beretta as Example (07/25/2005)
  
  
• Riverside Mass Shooting Fits Tragic Pattern Identified by Violence Policy Center in Largest Study of Murder-Suicide Ever Conducted (05/11/2005)
  
  
• Despite Mass Shooting in Wisconsin Leaving Eight Dead and Four Injured, Congressional Panel Plans Hearing Tomorrow on Bill to Shield Gun Industry from Civil Liability (03/14/2005)
  
  
• VPC Study Explains Assault Weapons' Spray-Fire Design (05/22/2003)
  
  
• Latest Edition of Firearms Production in America Shows Handgun Production in 2000 was Lowest Since 1978 (03/05/2003)
  
  
• CIA Letter Raises Further Doubts About Barrett Story on Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles to Bin Laden (08/06/2002)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Targets Europe For Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/01/2002)
  
  
• New VPC Report Debunks Gun Industry Claim That Bin Laden's 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles Were Obtained Through CIA Aid Program (2/13/2002)
  
  
• VPC Releases The State of the Gun Industry in Response to Nation's Largest Gun Trade Show Being Held in Las Vegas February 2-5, 2002
  
  
• Gunmakers Urge That Children as Young as Four Years Old Get "A .22 For Christmas," New VPC Report Reveals (12/18/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Armed Osama bin Laden's Terror Network: Al Qaeda Bought 25 Barrett 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (10/07/2001)
  
  
• Backgrounder on the Manufacturer of the Gun Reportedly Used in the Alleged Shooting by Nathaniel Brazill at Lake Worth Middle School in Lake Worth, Florida (05/10/2001)
  
  
• VPC Releases New Study, Hispanics and Firearms Violence (05/08/2001)
  
  
• Study Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation's Top Lead Polluters(05/01/2001)
  
  
• VPC Releases Latest Edition of Firearms Production in America (04/10/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Representative Markey Joins Violence Policy Center for Release of New VPC Report From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List (12/14/2000)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases Firearms Production In America, 1975-1997—A State-by-State Breakdown (12/06/2000)
  
  
• VPC Continues The Fight to Require Background Checks at "Tupperware® Parties For Criminals"— U.S. Senator Jack Reed to Take Over Gun Show Loophole Legislation (12/05/2000)
  
  
• VPC Lauds Introduction of Blagojevich Bill to Ban "Pocket Rockets" (07/18/2000)
  
  
• New VPC Study Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power Released Today at Chicago News Conference (07/17/2000)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases GUNLAND USA: A State-by-State Ranking of Gun Shows, Gun Retailers, Machine Guns, and Gun Manufacturers (06/28/2000)
  
  
• Smith & Wesson "Clarification" of Agreement Between Government and Gunmaker Exposes "Landmark" Settlement to be a Sham (04/12/2000)
  
  
• New VPC Report Details How Liability Legislation (H.R. 2366) Would Protect Manufacturers of Guns Used in 1999 Columbine Massacre (02/15/2000)
  
  
• Gun Industry Kicks Off Annual Trade Show on Holiday Honoring Assassinated Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (01/12/2000)
  
  
• New VPC Report Lays Out Minimal Terms for Settlement of Litigation Against Gun Industry (12/21/99)
  
  
• Fact Sheet on Taurus International Manufacturing Company And its "Wonder-Nine" High-Capacity Semiautomatic Pistols (12/07/99)
  
  
• New VPC Report Details How Firearms Industry Exploits Y2K Fears to Sell More Guns (12/07/99)
  
  
• VPC Releases Firearms Production in America—1999 Edition (12/01/99)
  
  
• Gun Industry Loses In Court Again (06/30/99)
  
  
• Powerful Weapons Can Shoot Down Airplanes, Penetrate Armor From Over a Mile Away (05/03/99)
  
  
• Guns Reportedly Used in Littleton Had Combat-Style Designs (04/23/99)
  
  
• New Report Documents NRA And Gun Industry Efforts to Woo Kids (04/22/99)
  
  
• VPC Hails Schumer Bill to Prevent Internet From Becoming "On-Line Arms Bazaar" (03/16/99)
  
  
• Landmark Verdict Against Gun Industry Paves Way for Further Litigation (02/11/99)
  
  
• Vast Majority of Handgun Makers Violate White House Trigger Lock Deal (10/14/98)
  
  
• VPC Releases Gun Industry Ads Exposing Giant Assault Weapon Loophole (07/21/98)
  
  
• Product Liability Bill Would Block Lawsuits Against Firearms Industry By Gun Victims (06/30/98)
  
  
• VPC Releases Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped? (03/17/98)
  
  
• New Violence Policy Center (VPC) Study Labels NRA's Eddie Eagle "Gun Safety" Program "Joe Camel With Feathers" (11/19/97)
  
  
• President's Trigger Lock Deal With Gun Industry Protects Industry--Not Children (10/09/97)
  
  
• New Semi-Annual VPC Report Who Dies? Details Latest Trends in Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in the U.S. (08/21/97)
  
  
• Landmark Legislation To Set Safety Standards For American-Made Handguns Introduced By Senator Barbara Boxer (01/09/97)
  
  
• Gun Shows Have Become "Tupperware® Parties For Criminals" New Violence Policy Center Study Reveals (07/17/96)
  
  
• New VPC Study Debunks National Rifle Association Claim To Represent "Family Values" (06/20/96)
  
  
• Product Liability Bill To Be Voted On In Senate Offers Special Protection To Unscrupulous Gun Dealers And Manufacturers Of Defective Firearms (03/18/96)
  
  
• New VPC Study Exposes Gun Industry's Marketing Tactics While Exploding Myths Concerning Women and Firearms Violence (12/01/94)
  
  
• Federal Tax Dollars Used To Fund School-Based Gun Industry Marketing Effort, New VPC Study Reveals (12/13/94)
  
  
• In Historic First, Saturday Night Special Manufacturer Tops U.S. Domestic Pistol Manufacturers (09/14/93)
  
  
• New Study--More Gun Dealers Than Gas Stations--Documents Criminal Abuse of Federal Gun Dealer Licenses and Regulatory Failures of Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) (12/11/92)

• An Analysis of the Decline in Gun Dealers: 1994 to 2005
  
  
• Vest Buster: The .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum—The Gun Industry's Latest Challenge to Law Enforcement Body Armor
  
  
• Bullet Hoses: Semiautomatic Assault Weapons—What Are They? What's So Bad About Them?
  
  
• The U.S. Gun Industry and Others Unknown: Evidence Debunking The Gun Industry's Claim That Osama Bin Laden Got His 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles From The U.S. Afghan-Aid Program
  
  
• The State of the Gun Industry
  
  
• Firearms Production in America: A Listing of Firearm Manufacturers in America with Production Histories Broken Out by Firearm Type and Caliber, 2002 Edition
  
  
• "A .22 For Christmas"—How the Gun Industry Designs and Markets Firearms for Children and Youth
  
  
• Voting From the Rooftops: How the Gun Industry Armed Osama bin Laden, Other Foreign and Domestic Terrorists, and Common Criminals With 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles
  
  
• Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Shooting Ranges and Lead to Children, Families, and the Environment
  
  
• From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List
  
  
• Firearms Production In America, 1975-1997—A State-by-State Breakdown
  
  
• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals
  
  
• Hispanics and Firearms Violence
  
  
• Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power
  
  
• GUNLAND USA: A State-by-State Ranking of Gun Shows, Gun Retailers, Machine Guns, and Gun Manufacturers
  
  
• Deadly Exceptions: Gun Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages
  
  
• Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids
  
  
• The Endgame: Any Settlement of Firearms Litigation Must Address Three Specific Areas of Gun Industry Conduct and Include a Strict Enforcement Mechanism
  
  
• Cashing in on the New Millennium: How the Firearms Industry exploits Y2K Fears to Sell More Guns
  
  
• One Shot, One Kill: Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles - Executive Summary
  
  
• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture
  
  
• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America
  
  
• Broken Promises: The Failure of the Trigger Lock "Deal" Between the Gun Industry and the White House
  
  
• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence
  
  
• Killer Clips: Gun Industry Ads for High-Capacity Magazines That Skirt the Assault Weapons Ban
  
  
• Small Favors: A Sampling of Assault Weapon and Saturday Night Special Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the Product Liability Bill's "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages
  
  
• Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped?
  
  
• Where Did You Get That Statistic?—A Firearms and Firearms Violence Bibliography and Resource Guide for Advocates Working to Reduce Firearms Violence
  
  
• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals - Executive Summary
  
  
• Female Persuasion: A Study of How the Firearms Industry Markets to Women and the Reality of Women and Guns
  
  
• "Use the Schools"--How Federal Tax Dollars are Spent to Market Guns to Kids
  
  
• Assault Weapons and Accessories in America