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Assault Weapons

Press Releases

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

• Combat Shooting Sets Its Sights On 2004 Olympic Games (07/22/99)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• VPC Releases Gun Industry Ads Exposing Giant Assault Weapon Loophole (07/21/98)

• 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)

• 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)

   

• Assault Weapons and Accessories in America

• Bullet Hoses: Semiautomatic Assault Weapons—What Are They? What's So Bad About Them?
  
  
• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• Deadly Exceptions: Gun Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages

• Gold Medal Gunslingers: Combat Shooting Targets the Olympic Games

• Killer Clips: Gun Industry Ads for High-Capacity Magazines That Skirt the Assault Weapons Ban

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• "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

• Young Guns Materials

Concealed Carry

Fact Sheets

• Funder of the Lott CCW Study Has Links to the Gun Industry

• Who is John Lott and Why is He Claiming That More Guns Mean Less Crime?

• VPC Releases License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime (06/12/2002)
  
  
• Pro-Gun Experts Prove Handguns Are Ineffective Self-Defense Tools, New VPC Study Reveals (11/19/2001)
  
  
• 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)

• Missouri Defeat Another Nail in The Gun Lobby's Coffin (04/07/99)

• New Study: Texas Hidden Handgun Licensees Arrested for Nearly Two Crimes a Day Since Law Passed (03/19/99)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

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

• Texas Concealed Carry Permit is "License to Kill" New Violence Policy Center Study Reveals (01/13/98)

   

• Miami Postal Clerk Who Shot Ex-Wife, Her Friend, and Then Killed Himself Had Florida Concealed Carry License (09/03/97)

• New Analysis of Florida's Female Homicide Victims Reveals Most Women Killed by Someone They Know in a Non-Criminal Attack (04/30/97)

• New Study Shows Florida's "Model" Concealed Carry Law Puts Guns Into The Hands Of Criminals (11/01/95)

   

• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• Concealed Carry: The Criminal's Companion

• Concealing the Risk: Real-World Effects of Lax Concealed Weapons Laws

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

• License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime
  
  
• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• Paper Tiger?—Will the Brady Law Work After Instant Check? - Revised Edition

• Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power

• Unintended Consequences: Pro-Handgun Experts Prove That Handguns Are a Dangerous Choice For Self-Defense
  
  
• Where Did You Get That Statistic?—A Firearms and Firearms Violence Bibliography and Resource Guide for Advocates Working to Reduce Firearms Violence

Elderly and Firearms Violence

Press Release

• New Semi-Annual VPC Report Who Dies? Details Latest Trends in Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in the U.S. (08/21/97)

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

Federal Policy Issues

Legislation to Regulate the Gun Industry

Fact Sheets

• An Agenda For Real Gun Control

• The Blagojevich/Lautenberg Bill Equals Real Gun Show Reform

• Criminal Use of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
  
  
• The False Hope of the "Smart" Gun

• Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware Parties for Criminals Fact Sheet

• Handun Ban Backgrounder

• National Rifle Association And The Gun Industry Launch Double-Barreled Attack on Legal Rights of Gun Violence Victims

• The National Rifle Association and the Gun Industry are Working Hand in Hand to Limit Consumer Rights

• "Product Liability Reform Act" Is "Gun Industry Relief Act"

• Second Amendment: No Right to Keep and Bear Arms

• 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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 (04/09/2001)
  
  
• 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 Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• 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)

• Federal Tax Dollars Used To Fund School-Based Gun Industry Marketing Effort, New VPC Study Reveals (12/13/94)

• 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)

   

• Assault Weapons and Accessories in America

• Broken Promises: The Failure of the Trigger Lock "Deal" Between the Gun Industry and the White House

• Bullet Hoses: Semiautomatic Assault Weapons—What Are They? What's So Bad About Them?
  
  
• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• Deadly Exceptions: Gun Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages
  
  

• From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List
  
  

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals
  
  

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals - Executive Summary

• John Ashcroft: Year One
  
  
• John Ashcroft: The Wrong Choice to Enforce America's Gun Laws
  
  
• Killer Clips: Gun Industry Ads for High-Capacity Magazines That Skirt the Assault Weapons Ban

• Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Impact of Tort Restrictions on Firearms Safety and Gun Control

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• "Officer Down"—Assault Weapons and the War on Law Enforcement
  
  
• One Shot, One Kill: Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles - Executive Summary

• Paper Tiger?—Will the Brady Law Work After Instant Check? - Revised Edition

• Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power

• Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Shooting Ranges and Lead to Children, Families, and the Environment
  
  
• Shot Full of Holes: Deconstructing John Ashcroft's Second Amendment
  
  
• 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

• The State of the Gun Industry
  
  
• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture

• 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

• Unsafe in Any Hands: Why America Needs to Ban Handguns

• 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
  
  
• "Use the Schools"--How Federal Tax Dollars are Spent to Market Guns to Kids

• 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
  
  
• Where Did You Get That Statistic?—A Firearms and Firearms Violence Bibliography and Resource Guide for Advocates Working to Reduce Firearms Violence

• Young Guns Materials

Firearms Industry

Legislation to Regulate the Gun Industry

Firearms Industry Resource Guide

Fact Sheets

• An Agenda For Real Gun Control

• The False Hope of the "Smart" Gun

• Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware Parties for Criminals Fact Sheet

• Handun Ban Backgrounder

• 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

• The National Rifle Association and the Gun Industry are Working Hand in Hand to Limit Consumer Rights

• "Product Liability Reform Act" Is "Gun Industry Relief Act"

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

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

• New VPC Report Lays Out Minimal Terms for Settlement of Litigation Against Gun Industry (12/21/99)

• 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)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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 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)

   

• Assault Weapons and Accessories in America

• Broken Promises: The Failure of the Trigger Lock "Deal" Between the Gun Industry and the White House

• Bullet Hoses: Semiautomatic Assault Weapons—What Are They? What's So Bad About Them?
  
  
• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• Deadly Exceptions: Gun Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages

• The Endgame: Any Settlement of Firearms Litigation Must Address Three Specific Areas of Gun Industry Conduct and Include a Strict Enforcement Mechanism

• Female Persuasion: A Study of How the Firearms Industry Markets to Women and the Reality of Women and Guns
  
  

• Firearms Production in America: A Listing of Firearm Manufacturers in America with Production Histories Broken Out by Firearm Type and Caliber, 2000 Edition
  
  

• Firearms Production In America, 1975-1997—A State-by-State Breakdown
  
  

• From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List
  
  

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals - Executive Summary

• GUNLAND USA: A State-by-State Ranking of Gun Shows, Gun Retailers, Machine Guns, and Gun Manufacturers

• Hispanics and Firearms Violence
  
  
• Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids

• Killer Clips: Gun Industry Ads for High-Capacity Magazines That Skirt the Assault Weapons Ban

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• NRA Family Values: The Racism, Sexism, Legal Woes, and Gun Industry Ties of the National Rifle Association's Board of Directors

• One Shot, One Kill: Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles - Executive Summary

• Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power

• Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Shooting Ranges and Lead to Children, Families, and the Environment
  
  
• 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

• The State of the Gun Industry
  
  
• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture

• 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

• 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
  
  
• "Use the Schools"--How Federal Tax Dollars are Spent to Market Guns to Kids

• 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
  
  
• Where Did You Get That Statistic?—A Firearms and Firearms Violence Bibliography and Resource Guide for Advocates Working to Reduce Firearms Violence

Firearms Marketing

Legislation to Regulate the Gun Industry

Fact Sheets

• Criminal Use of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
  
  
• Facts on Firearms and Domestic Violence

• The False Hope of the "Smart" Gun

• Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act

• Funder of the Lott CCW Study Has Links to the Gun Industry

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware Parties for Criminals Fact Sheet

• Handun Ban Backgrounder

• 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

• Who is John Lott and Why is He Claiming That More Guns Mean Less Crime?

• Women and Firearms Violence

• VPC Study Explains Assault Weapons' Spray-Fire Design (05/22/2003)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Targets Europe For Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/01/2002)
  
  

• 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

• Pro-Gun Experts Prove Handguns Are Ineffective Self-Defense Tools, New VPC Study Reveals (11/19/2001)

• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; African American Women Three Times More Likely to be Murdered Than White Women (10/30/2001)

• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; Hispanic Women Suffer From a Higher Female Homicide Rate Than the National Average (10/30/2001)

• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data (10/17/2001)
  

• U.S. Gun Industry Armed Osama bin Laden's Terror Network: Al Qaeda Bought 25 Barrett 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (10/07/2001)
  
  
• VPC 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)
  
  
• Statement of M. Kristen Rand, Legislative Director, Violence Policy Center (04/18/2001)
  
  
• For Every Time a Women Uses a Handgun to Kill in Self-Defense, 101 Women Die in Handgun Murders, New VPC Report Finds (01/31/2001)
  
  
• 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)

• New VPC Report Lays Out Minimal Terms for Settlement of Litigation Against Gun Industry (12/21/99)

• 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)

• Landmark Verdict Against Gun Industry Paves Way for Further Litigation (02/11/99)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• 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)

• New Study Shows Murders of Women Typically Involve Domestic Violence and Guns - Press Release (09/30/98)

• VPC Releases Gun Industry Ads Exposing Giant Assault Weapon Loophole (07/21/98)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• New VPC Study Exposes Gun Industry's Marketing Tactics While Exploding Myths Concerning Women and Firearms Violence (12/01/94)

• 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)

   

• Assault Weapons and Accessories in America

• Broken Promises: The Failure of the Trigger Lock "Deal" Between the Gun Industry and the White House

• Bullet Hoses: Semiautomatic Assault Weapons—What Are They? What's So Bad About Them?
  
  
• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• A Deadly Myth: Women, Handguns, and Self-Defense
  
  
• The Endgame: Any Settlement of Firearms Litigation Must Address Three Specific Areas of Gun Industry Conduct and Include a Strict Enforcement Mechanism

• Female Persuasion: A Study of How the Firearms Industry Markets to Women and the Reality of Women and Guns
  
  

• From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List
  
  

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals - Executive Summary

• Hispanics and Firearms Violence
  
  
• Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids

• Killer Clips: Gun Industry Ads for High-Capacity Magazines That Skirt the Assault Weapons Ban

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• One Shot, One Kill: Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles - Executive Summary

• Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power

• Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Shooting Ranges and Lead to Children, Families, and the Environment
  
  
• The State of the Gun Industry
  
  
• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture

• 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

• Unintended Consequences: Pro-Handgun Experts Prove That Handguns Are a Dangerous Choice For Self-Defense
  
  
• 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
  
  
• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1996 Homicide Data
  
  
• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data

• Where Did You Get That Statistic?—A Firearms and Firearms Violence Bibliography and Resource Guide for Advocates Working to Reduce Firearms Violence

• Young Guns Materials

Firearms Violence

Fact Sheets

• Criminal Use of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
  
  
• Facts on Firearms and Domestic Violence

• Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act

• Handun Ban Backgrounder

• Women and Firearms Violence

• 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)

• Fort Bragg Tragedies Focus Attention on National Plague of Murder-Suicide (08/05/2002)

• Fact Sheet on the Los Angeles International Airport Shooting and Statistics on Firearms Violence in California (07/08/2002)

• VPC Releases Most Comprehensive State-by-State Study Ever Conducted on National Tragedy of Murder-Suicide (04/17/2002)

• VPC Backgrounder on Guns and France in Wake of Mass Handgun Shooting in Nanterre, France (03/28/2002)

• New Harvard University Study Shows Direct Link Between Gun Availability And Gun Death Among Children (02/21/2002)

• Nearly One Third of Kids Murdered With Handguns Are Shot And Killed by Other Kids, VPC Study Finds (11/28/2001)

• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; African American Women Three Times More Likely to be Murdered Than White Women (10/30/2001)

• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; Hispanic Women Suffer From a Higher Female Homicide Rate Than the National Average (10/30/2001)

• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data (10/17/2001)
  

• Even The Safest City in America Cannot Escape Handgun Violence (09/06/2001)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• VPC Releases Where'd They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963 to 2001 (04/18/2001)
  
  
• Santana High School Shooting Latest Proof of Need For Handgun Ban (03/05/2001)
  
  
• White House Shooting Latest Proof of Need For Handgun Ban (02/07/2001)
  
  
• For Every Time a Women Uses a Handgun to Kill in Self-Defense, 101 Women Die in Handgun Murders, New VPC Report Finds (01/31/2001)
  
  
• Fact Sheet on the Manufacturer of the Gun Reportedly Used in the Shooting at Theo J. Buell Elementary in Flint, Michigan (03/01/2000)

• Fact Sheet on Georgia Gun Laws and Statistics on Teenagers and Guns in Georgia (05/20/99)

• 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)

• Colorado Gun Laws and Statistics on Teenagers and Guns in Colorado (04/20/99)

• New Study: Texas Hidden Handgun Licensees Arrested for Nearly Two Crimes a Day Since Law Passed (03/19/99)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• New Study Shows Murders of Women Typically Involve Domestic Violence and Guns - Press Release (09/30/98)

• 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)

   

• Miami Postal Clerk Who Shot Ex-Wife, Her Friend, and Then Killed Himself Had Florida Concealed Carry License (09/03/97)

• New Semi-Annual VPC Report Who Dies? Details Latest Trends in Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in the U.S. (08/21/97)

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

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

   

• American Roulette: The Untold Story of Murder-Suicide in the United States
  
  
• Assault Weapons and Accessories in America

• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• A Deadly Myth: Women, Handguns, and Self-Defense
  
  
• Hispanics and Firearms Violence
  
  
• Kids in the Line of Fire: Children, Handguns, and Homicide
  
  
• License to Kill, and Kidnap, and Rape, and Drive Drunk...

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• "Officer Down"—Assault Weapons and the War on Law Enforcement
  
  
• Start 'Em Young: Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture

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

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

• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 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

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

• Young Guns Materials

Gun Shows

Legislation to Regulate the Gun Industry

Fact Sheets

• An Agenda For Real Gun Control

• The Blagojevich/Lautenberg Bill Equals Real Gun Show Reform

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware Parties for Criminals Fact Sheet

• 50 Organizations Announce Opposition to McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (06/12/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Opposes McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (05/15/2001)
  
  
• Statement of M. Kristen Rand, Legislative Director, Violence Policy Center (04/18/2001)
  
  
• 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)

• Violence Policy Center Releases GUNLAND USA: A State-by-State Ranking of Gun Shows, Gun Retailers, Machine Guns, and Gun Manufacturers (06/28/2000)

• 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)

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

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

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

• Gun Shows Have Become "Tupperware® Parties For Criminals" New Violence Policy Center Study Reveals (07/17/96)

• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence
  
  

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals
  
  

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals - Executive Summary

• GUNLAND USA: A State-by-State Ranking of Gun Shows, Gun Retailers, Machine Guns, and Gun Manufacturers

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

Junk Guns (Saturday Night Specials)

Fact Sheet

• An Agenda For Real Gun Control

• Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act

• 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)
  
  
• Fact Sheet on the Manufacturer of the Gun Reportedly Used in the Shooting at Theo J. Buell Elementary in Flint, Michigan (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)

• Gun Industry Loses In Court Again (06/30/99)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• Landmark Legislation To Set Safety Standards For American-Made Handguns Introduced By Senator Barbara Boxer (01/09/97)

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

• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

• Deadly Exceptions: Gun Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

Litigation and Liability

Litigation Against the Gun Industry - information on firearms litigation, including fact sheets and copies of complaints.

Fact Sheets

• The False Hope of the "Smart" Gun

• National Rifle Association And The Gun Industry Launch Double-Barreled Attack on Legal Rights of Gun Violence Victims

• The National Rifle Association and the Gun Industry are Working Hand in Hand to Limit Consumer Rights

• "Product Liability Reform Act" Is "Gun Industry Relief Act"

• 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 (05/30/02)
  
  
• Terminate Federal Guns-for-Felons Program, Violence Policy Center Tells U.S. Supreme Court (04/09/2002)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• New VPC Report Details How Liability Legislation (H.R. 2366) Would Protect Manufacturers of Guns Used in 1999 Columbine Massacre (02/15/2000)

• New VPC Report Lays Out Minimal Terms for Settlement of Litigation Against Gun Industry (12/21/99)

• Gun Industry Loses In Court Again (06/30/99)

• Landmark Verdict Against Gun Industry Paves Way for Further Litigation (02/11/99)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• 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)

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

• Special Report: Gun Lobby's "Fellow Travelers" Equate Firearms Industry With Communists

• The Endgame: Any Settlement of Firearms Litigation Must Address Three Specific Areas of Gun Industry Conduct and Include a Strict Enforcement Mechanism

• Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Impact of Tort Restrictions on Firearms Safety and Gun Control

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• 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