Violence Policy Center Fact Sheets

• Why Regulate 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles?
  
  
• Criminal Use of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
  
  
• National Security Experts Agree: 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles Are Ideal Tools For Terrorists
  
  
• Gun Industry Trade Association Resorts to Deceit After CBS News 60 Minutes Documents Danger of Fifty Caliber Anti-Armor Rifles

• Clear and Present Danger: National Security Experts Warn About the Danger of Unrestricted Sales of 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles to Civilians (July 2005)
  
  
• The Threat Posed to Helicopters By 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (August 2004)
  
  
• Really Big Guns, Even Bigger Lies (March 2004)
  
  
• "Just Like Bird Hunting" - The Threat to Civil Aviation From 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (January 2003)
  
  
• Sitting Ducks: The Threat to the Chemical and Refinery Industry From 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (August 2002)
  
  
• 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 (February 2002)
  
  
• 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 (October 2001)
  
  
• One Shot, One Kill: Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles (May 1999)