Fact Sheets

SKS Assault Rifles–A Menace to Law Enforcement, PDF

S. 1431 And H.R. 2038 Would Strengthen And Renew The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, PDF

How the "Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003" Compares with the Current Federal Assault Weapons Ban, PDF

The Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Renewal Is Not Enough, PDF

The Bushmaster XM15: The Poster Child for How the Gun Industry Evades the Law, PDF

The Gun Industry Evades the Assault Weapons Ban, PDF

Studies and Reports

United States of Assault Weapons: Gunmakers Evading the Federal Assault Weapons Ban

A Further Examination of Data Contained in the Study On Target Regarding Effects of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban

Illinois: Land of Post-Ban Assault Weapons

Bullet Hoses: Semiautomatic Assault Weapons—What Are They? What's So Bad About Them?

"Officer Down"—Assault Weapons and the War on Law Enforcement

Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped?

That Was Then, This Is Now: The NRA and the Gun Industry Talk About Assault Weapons--From Both Sides of Their Mouths

Assault Weapons and Accessories in America

Press Releases

Columbus, Ohio, Assault Weapons Ban Greater Tragedy to NRA Than Columbine Massacre, NRA's Wayne LaPierre Reveals (07/18/2005)

Congress Should Reject Dangerous Legislation (H.R. 1288) Repealing the District of Columbia's Longstanding Laws Banning Assault Weapons and Handguns (06/28/2005)

SKS Assault Rifle Reported as Weapon Used in Ambush Attack on Police in Ceres, CA, Leaving One Officer Dead And One Critically Wounded (01/11/2005)

Wisconsin Hunter Murders Show Need For Effective Assault Weapons Ban—Armed Hunters No Match For SKS Assault Rifle (11/22/2004)

Violence Policy Center Issues Statement on Expiration of Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Press Release (09/13/2004)

Arizona, Nevada, and Utah Comprise the "UZI Triangle" of Copycat Assault Weapon Manufacturers, According to Violence Policy Center (08/25/2004)

More Than 50 Members of Entertainment Community Sign Letter Calling on President Bush, U.S. Congress, to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (07/21/2004)

New Study Reveals More Than 40 Gunmakers Currently Marketing Assault Weapons—Including UZIs, AK-47s, AR-15s, MAC-10s, Galils, MP5s, and Others—Despite 1994 Federal Ban (07/20/2004)

New Assault Weapon Manufacturer—Vulcan Armament—Brags "The Guns of the Special Forces Are Now on Sale in America!" (05/19/2004)

Revelation That Romanian AK-47s Seized by Italian Authorities Are Legal Proves Need to Strengthen, Not Just Renew, Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/29/2004)

Five Years After Columbine Shooting, Assault Weapons Continue to Threaten Public Safety, Illustrating Need to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/19/2004)

Illinois Has More Assault Weapon Manufacturers Than Any Other State, New Study Shows (03/03/2004)

Violence Policy Center Hails Senate Defeat of Immunity Bill, Urges Congress to Focus on Passing Effective Assault Weapons Legislation (03/02/2004)

Senate-Passed Assault Weapons "Ban" Will Do Little to Keep Assault Weapons Off Our Streets, Violence Policy Center (VPC) Warns (03/02/2004)

On One-Year Anniversary of DC-Area Sniper Shootings, Violence Policy Center Strongly Supports Lautenberg and McCarthy Bills (S. 1431, H.R. 2038) to Renew and Strengthen the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (10/01/2003)

VPC Study Explains Assault Weapons' Spray-Fire Design (05/22/2003)

Majority Leader DeLay's Promise to Let Assault Weapons Ban Expire Will Keep Cop-Killer Guns on U.S. Streets (05/14/2003)

One in Five Law Enforcement Officers Slain in the Line of Duty Is Killed with an Assault Weapon, New VPC Study Reveals (05/08/2003)

VPC Offers Strong Support for McCarthy-Conyers Assault Weapons Ban (05/08/2003)

VPC Welcomes President Bush's Reaffirmation of Campaign Pledge to Support Reauthorization of Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/14/2003)

Attorney General John Ashcroft Reverses Bush Administration Position on Renewing Federal Ban on Assault Weapons (03/05/2003)

Gun Used by Washington, DC-Area Sniper Illustrates Need to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (10/28/2002)

VPC Releases Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped? (03/17/1998)

NRA, Gun Industry Attempting to Revise Assault Weapons History (12/09/1997)

Speaker's Promise To National Rifle Association To Repeal Assault Weapons Ban Ignores Threat To Police (12/11/1995)

Assault Weapons Are "Cop-Killers" According To New Violence Policy Center Study (09/12/1995)

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