"A .22 For Christmas"

1. General Social Survey accessed from www.ipcsr.umich.edu. 
   
   
2. "The Four-Gun Family in Their Sights: U.S. Gunmakers Are on the Offensive," Financial Times, March 2, 1996, 7.
   
   
3. Police Foundation, Guns in America, 1996, 31.
   
   
4. Advertisement, New England Firearms, Shooting Sports Retailer, September/October 1998.
   
   
5. For more information on these marketing efforts, see From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2000); Start �Em Young�Recruitment of Kids to the Gun Culture (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1999); Young Guns: How the Gun Lobby Nurtures America's Youth Gun Culture (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1998); Joe Camel with Feathers: How the NRA with Gun and Tobacco Industry Dollars Uses its Eddie Eagle Program to Market Guns to Kids (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1997); and, "Use the Schools"�How Federal Tax Dollars are Spent to Market Guns to Kids (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1994).
   
   
6. Andy Kemp, "Girls and Guns," Handguns, August 2001, 51.
   
   
7. Brian C. Sheetz, "Sized for the Next Generation," American Rifleman, May 2000, 38.
   
   
8. Brian C. Sheetz, "Sized for the Next Generation," American Rifleman, May 2000, 38.
   
   
9. Andy Kemp, "Girls and Guns," Handguns, August 2001, 54.
   
   
10. Clair Rees, "Shooting Fun for the Whole Family," supplement to Handguns, July 1999, N.
    
    
11. http://www.uspsa-juniors.org.
    
    
12. Josh Sugarmann and Philip Alpers, Gold Medal Gunslingers: Combat Shooting Targets the Olympic Games (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 1999) 16.
    
    
13. Michael McLean, "Back in the Saddle: A Trail Guide to Cowboy Action Shooting," InSights, July 1997, 8-11.
    
    
14. http://www.nrahq.org/youth/marksman.asp.
    
    
15. William Kendy "A .22 For Christmas," SHOT Business, November 2001, 20.
    
    
16. When Your Youngster Wants a Gun... (pamphlet), National Shooting Sports Foundation (1994).
    
    
17. Laurie Goodstein, "Teen-Age Poll Finds a Turn to the Traditional," The New York Times, 30 April 1998, A20.
    
    
18. Grits Gresham, "Community Relations," SHOT Business, September/October 1993, 9.
    
    
19. William Kendy, "A .22 for Christmas," SHOT Business, November 2001, 20-24.
    
    
20. NRA advertisement, Time, March 8, 1999.
    
    
21. Allen G. Breed, "Who Are The Suspects?," ABC News web site at www.abcnews.com, downloaded 14 June 1999.
    
    
22. Marty Langley, Where'd They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963 to 2001, (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2001) 44.
    
    
23. Marty Langley, Where'd They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963 to 2001, (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2001) 43.
    
    
24. Lance Williams and Bill Bryan, "Police Give Father Until Thursday to Turn Himself In," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 18, 1998, B1.
    
    
25. "Boy, 11, dies in hunting accident," Associated Press, December 4, 2000.
    
    
26. Julie Deardorff, "8 Tragedies Mar Deer Hunting in Wisconsin," Chicago Tribune, December 17, 2001.
    
    
27. Tom Diaz, Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Shooting Ranges and Lead to Children, Families, and the Environment (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, 2001) 15-17.
    
    
28. Data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control�WISQARS.
    
    
29. Analysis from "Surveillance for Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries�United States, 1993-1998," MMWR, Vol. 50, No. SS-2, April 13, 2001, 24.

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