Fact Sheets

• Handgun Ban Backgrounder

• Kids and Guns in Oregon

• Firearms Safety and Violence Prevention Act

• Cease Fire Fact Sheet

• Second Amendment Fact Sheet

• Facts on Firearms and Domestic Violence

• Women and Firearms Violence

Studies

• "Officer Down"—Assault Weapons and the War on Law Enforcement
  
  
• American Roulette: The Untold Story of Murder-Suicide in the United States
  
  
• Kids in the Line of Fire: Children, Handguns, and Homicide
  
  
• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data
  
  
• Hispanics and Firearms Violence
  
  
• A Deadly Myth: Women, Handguns, and Self-Defense
  
  
• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture
  
  
• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1998 Homicide Data
  

• License to Kill, and Kidnap, and Rape, and Drive Drunk...

• Who Dies? A Look at Firearms Death and Injury in America - Revised Edition

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1996 Homicide Data

• Where Did You Get That Statistic?—A Firearms and Firearms Violence Bibliography and Resource Guide for Advocates Working to Reduce Firearms Violence
  
  
• Where'd They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963 to 2001 (html format)
  
  
• Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped?

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