Information on Assault Weapons

Information on 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles

Studies

• VPC Backgrounder: The Ruger Mini-14 —The "Poor Man's Assault Rifle" (July 2011)
  
  
• VPC Backgrounder: the Glock Pistol—A Favorite of Mass Shooters (July 2011)
  
  
• The Militarization of the U.S. Civilian Firearms Market (June 2011)
  
  
• A Shrinking Minority: The Continuing Decline of Gun Ownership in America (April 2011)
  
  
• Blood Money: How the Gun Industry Bankrolls the NRA (April 2011)
  
  
• Mass Shootings in the United States Involving High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines (January 2011)
  
  
• Accessories to Murder (January 2011)
  
  
• Indicted: Types of Firearms and Methods of Gun Trafficking from the United States to Mexico as Revealed in U.S. Court Documents (April 2009)
  
  
• Iron River: Gun Violence and Illegal Firearms Trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico Border (March 2009)
  
  
• “Big Boomers"—Rifle Power Designed Into Handguns (December 2008)
  
  
• An Analysis of the Decline in Gun Dealers: 1994 to 2007 (August 2007)
  
  
• Backgrounder on Pistols Used in Virginia Tech Shooting (April 2007)

• An Analysis of the Decline in Gun Dealers: 1994 to 2005 (March 2006)
  

• Vest Buster: The .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum—The Gun Industry's Latest Challenge to Law Enforcement Body Armor (June 2004)
  
  
• Bullet Hoses: Semiautomatic Assault Weapons—What Are They? What's So Bad About Them? (May 2003)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• The State of the Gun Industry (January 2002)
  
  
• Firearms Production in America: A Listing of Firearm Manufacturers in America with Production Histories Broken Out by Firearm Type and Caliber, 2002 Edition (March 2003)
  
  
• "A .22 For Christmas"—How the Gun Industry Designs and Markets Firearms for Children and Youth (December 2001)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Shooting Ranges and Lead to Children, Families, and the Environment (May 2001)
  
  
• Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns (March 2001)
  
  
• From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List (December 2000)
  
  
• Firearms Production In America, 1975-1997—A State-by-State Breakdown (December 2000)
  
  
• Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power (July 2000)
  
  
• GUNLAND USA: A State-by-State Ranking of Gun Shows, Gun Retailers, Machine Guns, and Gun Manufacturers (June 2000)
  
  
• Deadly Exceptions: Gun Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages (February 2000)
  
  
• Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (November 1997)
  
  
• Cashing in on the New Millennium: How the Firearms Industry exploits Y2K Fears to Sell More Guns (December 1999)
  
  
• One Shot, One Kill: Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles - Executive Summary (May 1999)
  
  
• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture (April 1999)
  
  
• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America (January 1999)
  
  
• Broken Promises: The Failure of the Trigger Lock "Deal" Between the Gun Industry and the White House (October 1998)
  
  
• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence (1994)
  
  
• 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 (June 1998)
  
  
• Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped? (March 1998)
  
  
• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals - Executive Summary (1996)
  
  
• Female Persuasion: A Study of How the Firearms Industry Markets to Women and the Reality of Women and Guns (1994)
  
  
• "Use the Schools"--How Federal Tax Dollars are Spent to Market Guns to Kids (1994)
  
  
• Assault Weapons and Accessories in America (1988)