Information on the Firearms Industry

Fact Sheets

• 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

Press Releases

• 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)

   

Studies