Press Releases

• U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Rejects Amendment to Help Law Enforcement Stop Illegal Gun Trafficking (07/13/2006)
  
  
• U.S. House Vote to Stop Enforcement of Federal Child Safety Lock Law Panders to Gun Lobby, Ignores Grave Risk to Children (06/29/2006)
  
  
• Ten Murder-Suicides Occur Each Week in America New VPC Study Reveals, Almost All Perpetrated With Guns (05/02/2006)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Sex Offender Registry Bill Scheduled to be Considered by House Today Will Allow Misdemeanor Sex Offenders Continued Access to Guns—Despite Ban Passed by House on Voice Vote on Similar Bill Last Year (03/08/2006)
  
  
• Federal Indictment Confirms Again That the 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifle Is a Weapon of Choice Among Terrorists (02/06/2006)
  
  
• Goleta, California, Postal Shooting Latest Example of Unique Facilitating Role Guns Play in Murder-Suicide (01/31/2006)
  
  
• Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito’s Views Could Imperil Most Federal Gun, Ammo, and Explosives Laws, New Violence Policy Center Backgrounder Shows (11/02/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center (VPC) Statement on U.S. House Passage of Bill Protecting the Unregulated Gun Industry (10/20/2005)
  
  
• U.S. House Passes Measure to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Sex Offenders (09/14/2005)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• National Security Experts Confirm Terror Threat Posed by 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (07/19/2005)
  
  
• House Judiciary Committee Rejects Amendments to Patriot Act to Keep Guns--Including 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles--Out of the Hands of Terrorists (07/13/2005)
  
  
• Congress Should Reject Dangerous Legislation (H.R. 1288) Repealing the District of Columbia's Longstanding Laws Banning Assault Weapons and Handguns (06/28/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Launches Web Site to Aid Citywide Effort to Stop Congressional Repeal of DC Handgun Ban (06/16/2005)
  
  
• 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 Joins Representatives Moran, Kennedy, and McCarthy in Calling for Federal Ban on 50 Caliber Anti-armor Sniper Rifles (02/08/2005)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• VPC Applauds Introduction of Federal Legislation to Permanently Eliminate NRA-Backed Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (10/08/2004)
  
  
• VPC Statement on U.S. House Vote to Repeal DC Gun Laws (09/29/2004)

• Congress Poised to Vote on National Rifle Association-Backed Bill to Repeal DC Gun Laws (09/20/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Issues Statement on Expiration of Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Press Release (09/13/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Joins Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Calling For Federal Ban on 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (08/18/2004)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• VPC Applauds Introduction of Federal Legislation to Permanently Eliminate NRA-backed Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (07/01/2004)
  
  
• U.S. House Appropriations Committee Inserts Pro-Gun Language in Spending Bill in Effort to Torpedo New York City Lawsuit Against Firearms Industry (06/23/2004)
  
  
• SKS Assault Rifles–A Menace to Law Enforcement (pdf format) (06/18/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Offers Strong Support For New York State Legislation to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (06/15/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Warns Nation's Law Enforcement Officers of New Handgun Threat to Police Body Armor (06/02/2004)
  
  
• New Assault Weapon Manufacturer—Vulcan Armament—Brags "The Guns of the Special Forces Are Now on Sale in America!" (05/19/2004)
  
  
• VPC Offers Strong Support for Federal Legislation to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/03/2004)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Federal District Court Strongly Rejects CATO Institute-Backed Challenge to Washington, DC Handgun Ban (03/31/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Rebuts "Top Ten Lies" of Fifty Caliber Institute (FCI) (03/16/2004)
  
  
• Only Six Months Before Federal Assault Weapons Ban Expires (03/12/2004)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• National Rifle Association-Backed Amendment to Gun Industry Immunity Bill Would Repeal 28-Year-Old District of Columbia Handgun Ban (03/01/2004)
  
  
• VPC Applauds U.S. Senate's Rejection of Omnibus Spending Conference Report Loaded with Provisions That Would Arm Criminals, Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers (01/20/2004)
  
  
• Federal District Court Strongly Rejects National Rifle Association Second Amendment Challenge to Washington, DC Handgun Ban (01/15/2004)

• Provisions Tucked Into Omnibus Spending Conference Report Would Arm Criminals And Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers, Violence Policy Center Charges (12/09/2003)

• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to U.S. Supreme Court Refusal to Review Silveira v. Lockyer (12/01/2003)

• U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Dismisses Terror Threat of Pistol Disguised as Pen (11/17/2003)
  
  
• Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Allows Sale of Handgun Disguised as a Pen Despite Law Enforcement Warning (10/28/2003)
  
  
• Today's Action by U.S. Senate to Reject Class Action Legislation Is Victory For Victims of Gun Violence And Gun Consumers (10/22/2003)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Applauds Introduction of "Terrorist Firearms Detection Act of 2003" (10/22/2003)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Launches Campaign and Website to Engage Grassroots—www.banassaultweapons.org—as Part of Growing Effort to Renew and Strengthen Federal Assault Weapons Ban (09/30/2003)
  

• House Passes Appropriations Bill That Would License Tens of Thousands of New "Kitchen-Table" Gun Dealers, Undermine Gun Dealer Oversight (07/25/2003)
  
  
• Eleventh-Hour NRA Amendment to Justice Department Appropriations Bill Would License Tens of Thousands of New "Kitchen-Table" Gun Dealers (07/21/2003)
  
  
• U.S. Terror Training Indictment Echoes Violence Policy Center Warning (06/27/2003)
  
  
• VPC Study Explains Assault Weapons' Spray-Fire Design (05/22/2003)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Attorney General John Ashcroft Reverses Bush Administration Position on Renewing Federal Ban on Assault Weapons (03/05/2003)
  
  
• CIA Letter Raises Further Doubts About Barrett Story on Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles to Bin Laden (08/06/2002)
  
  
• Attorney General Ashcroft Misled Congress and the American People on Legality of Checking Terrorist Gun Purchase Records (07/24/2002)
  
  
• VPC Denounces Passage of "Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act"—Urges Senate Not To Make the Same Mistake (07/11/2002)
  
  
• VPC Statement Opposing "Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act" (07/10/2002)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Second Amendment Cases (06/10/2002)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to D.C. Gun Crime Defendants Using U.S. Department of Justice Second Amendment Policy Shift to Strike Down Gun Laws (05/30/2002)
  
  
• Ashcroft and NRA Provide Second Amendment Gun Defense for Accused American Taliban Terrorist John Walker Lindh (05/16/2002)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Targets Europe For Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/01/2002)
  
  
• Terminate Federal Guns-for-Felons Program, Violence Policy Center Tells U.S. Supreme Court (04/09/2002)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Response to Justice Department Proposal to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Prohibited Aliens (02/13/2002)
  
  
• 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 John Ashcroft: Year One (01/31/2002)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• U.S. Supreme Court Decides Today to Hear Case That Could Terminate Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (01/22/2002)
  
  
• Gunmakers Urge That Children as Young as Four Years Old Get "A .22 For Christmas," New VPC Report Reveals (12/18/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Justice Department Protects Terrorist "Gun Rights" While Putting Americans at Risk (12/06/2001)
  
  
• Jihad Trainees Urged to Use Lax U.S. Gun Laws to Wage Holy War (11/21/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Armed Osama bin Laden's Terror Network: Al Qaeda Bought 25 Barrett 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (10/07/2001)
  
  
• VPC Submits Comments on Ashcroft Background Check Proposal—Urges FBI to Reject Ashcroft's Dangerous Proposed Rule - (09/05/2001)
  
  
• No Recess for Ashcroft Hypocrisy—DOJ Continues to Undermine its Own Case in Emerson - (08/09/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Decision Cloaked in Secrecy— VPC Files Freedom of Information Act Request on Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter (08/02/2001)
  
  
• VPC Praises Effort to Preserve the Brady Law (07/26/2001)
  
  
• Just Plain Wrong—VPC Exposes Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter to NRA to Be Error-Ridden Fraud (07/25/2001)
  
  
• House Votes to Weaken Brady Law (07/18/2001)
  
  
• VPC Endorses Schumer Proposal to Protect Brady Law From Being Gutted by Ashcroft Justice Department (06/29/2001)
  
  
• NRA Life Member John Ashcroft Announces Plan to Destroy National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Records (06/28/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge to Brady Law's Retention of National Instant Check Records (06/25/2001)
  
  
• 50 Organizations Announce Opposition to McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (06/12/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Pro-Gun Actions Turning Department of Justice Into NRA Franchise - (06/06/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Sues Attorney General Ashcroft Over Unlawful Suspension of Brady Law Regulation—Further Evidence of Shift in Justice Department Gun Policy (06/04/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Letter to NRA Reveals Shift in Justice Department Policy, Undermines Enforcement of Gun Laws (05/23/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Opposes McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (05/15/2001)
  
  
• Study Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation's Top Lead Polluters(05/01/2001)
  
  
• Statement of M. Kristen Rand, Legislative Director, Violence Policy Center (04/18/2001)
  
  
• Bush Budget Provides More Guns, Less Prevention (04/09/01)
  
  
• White House Shooting Latest Proof of Need For Handgun Ban (02/07/2001)
  
  
• Attorney General Nominee Ashcroft Member of National Rifle Association (01/26/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases Report Detailing Ashcroft Pro-Gun Record (01/09/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Opposes Nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S. Attorney General (01/04/2001)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)

• VPC Releases New Handgun Ban Study, Unsafe in Any Hands: Why America Needs to Ban Handguns (03/01/2000)

• New VPC Report Details How Liability Legislation (H.R. 2366) Would Protect Manufacturers of Guns Used in 1999 Columbine Massacre (02/15/2000)

• House Bill Undermines Current Gun Law (06/18/99)

• House Gun Bill Weakens Current Law (06/16/99)

• VPC Denounces House Gun Bill (06/09/99)

• VPC Demonstrates How Weak Senate Gun Bill Allows "Junk Locks" (06/08/99)

• Senate Passage of Tough Gun Show Rules Will Control "Tupperware® Parties for Criminals" (05/20/99)

• Powerful Weapons Can Shoot Down Airplanes, Penetrate Armor From Over a Mile Away (05/03/99)

• 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)

• VPC Hails Clinton's Call to Regulate Gun Shows (11/09/98)

• 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)

• VPC Blasts President For Hosting Rose Garden Gun Event While Selling Out Gun Victims on Lawsuit Bill (07/08/98)

• Product Liability Bill Would Block Lawsuits Against Firearms Industry By Gun Victims (06/30/98)

• New Rule Would Create Loophole in Brady Law, Undermine Instant Background Check (05/20/98)

• Arkansas School Shooting Focuses New Attention on Youth Gun Culture (03/26/98)

• VPC Releases Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped? (03-17-98)

• NRA, Gun Industry Attempting to Revise Assault Weapons History (12/09/97)

• President's Trigger Lock Deal With Gun Industry Protects Industry--Not Children (10/09/97)

• Supreme Court Decision in Brady Case First Volley In Coming Battle Over National Waiting Period and Background Check for Handgun Buyers (06/27/97)

• Representative Bob Barr (R-GA) to Offer Amendment to Put Guns Back Into the Hands of Wife Beaters and Child Abusers (05/12/97)

• 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)

• Product Liability Bill To Be Voted On In Senate Offers Special Protection To Unscrupulous Gun Dealers And Manufacturers Of Defective Firearms (03/18/96)

• Speaker's Promise To National Rifle Association To Repeal Assault Weapons Ban Ignores Threat To Police (12/11/95)

• Assault Weapons Are "Cop-Killers" According To New Violence Policy Center Study (09/12/95)

• "Stop Arming Felons Act" Would Close Loopholes That Put Guns And Explosives Back Into The Hands Of Violent Criminals (07/24/95)

• House Appropriations Committee Stops Effort To Re-Fund Program That Put Guns And Explosives Back Into The Hands Of Criminals (07/11/95)

• In Historic First, Saturday Night Special Manufacturer Tops U.S. Domestic Pistol Manufacturers (09/14/93)

• New Technology--Caseless "Phantom" Ammo--Could Devastate Police Investigations (07/06/93)

• 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)

• Violence Policy Center Study Spurs Legislation To End Federal Program To Rearm Convicted, Violent Felons (02/27/92)

   

Studies

• American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States

• An Analysis of the Decline in Gun Dealers: 1994 to 2005

• Judge Samuel Alito's Views Would Endanger Federal Gun Laws

• Backgrounder on Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito

• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2003 Homicide Data

• A Foreign Affair: Contracting for U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Firearms

• Clear and Present Danger: National Security Experts Warn About the Danger of Unrestricted Sales of 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles to Civilians

• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2002 Homicide Data

• The Threat Posed to Helicopters By 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles

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

• Vest Buster: The .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum—The Gun Industry's Latest Challenge to Law Enforcement Body Armor

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

• Really Big Guns, Even Bigger Lies

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

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

• John Ashcroft: Year One
  
  

• The State of the Gun Industry

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