Fact Sheets

• Criminal Use of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
  
  
• 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?

• Funder of Lott 1996 CCW Study Has Links to the Gun Industry

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

Press Releases

• New NRA Post-Katrina Fundraising Campaign Targeting Mayors and Police Signals Return to Organization’s Days of “Jack Booted Government Thugs” Extremist Rhetoric (05/18/2006)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Urges Washington Redskins to Withdraw From Shooting Fundraiser With National Rifle Association as NRA Lobbies on Capitol Hill to Overturn D.C.'s Gun Laws (10/11/2005)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Columbus, Ohio, Assault Weapons Ban Greater Tragedy to NRA Than Columbine Massacre, NRA's Wayne LaPierre Reveals (07/18/2005)
  
  
• Attorney General John Ashcroft Reverses Bush Administration Position on Renewing Federal Ban on Assault Weapons (03/05/2003)
  
  
• VPC Releases License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime (06/12/2002)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Second Amendment Cases (06/10/2002)
  
  
• Ashcroft and NRA Provide Second Amendment Gun Defense for Accused American Taliban Terrorist John Walker Lindh (05/16/2002)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Response to Justice Department Proposal to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Prohibited Aliens (02/13/2002)
  
  
• VPC Releases John Ashcroft: Year One (01/31/2002)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Pro-Gun Experts Prove Handguns Are Ineffective Self-Defense Tools, New VPC Study Reveals (11/19/2001)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Just Plain Wrong—VPC Exposes Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter to NRA to Be Error-Ridden Fraud (07/25/2001)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Study Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation's Top Lead Polluters(05/01/2001)
  
  
• 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)

Studies

• License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime
  
  

• John Ashcroft: Year One
  
  

• "A .22 For Christmas"—How the Gun Industry Designs and Markets Firearms for Children and Youth
  
  

• 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
  
  

• Shot Full of Holes: Deconstructing John Ashcroft's Second Amendment
  
  

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

• John Ashcroft: The Wrong Choice to Enforce America's Gun Laws
  
  

• Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals
  
  

• License to Kill III: The Texas Concealed Handgun Law's Legacy of Crime and Violence

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

• Gold Medal Gunslingers: Combat Shooting Targets the Olympic Games

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

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• That Was Then, This is Now: The NRA and the Gun Industry Talk About Assault Weapons--From Both Sides of Their Mouths

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

• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

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

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

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