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Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

Executive Summary

Table of Contents

The Crisis

The Lobbies

The Boom in Guns

A Brief History of Firearms Law

The Embattled Past of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

A More Comprehensive Strategy

The Next Steps


This is the full text of the executive summary of the 1994 Violence Policy Center study Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence. This executive summary appeared as an article in the March 20, 1994 edition of Rolling Stone magazine. For information on how to order the full study from the Violence Policy Center, please return to the publications page.


The Violence Policy Center is a national non-profit educational foundation that conducts research on violence in America and works to develop violence-reduction policies and proposals. The Center examines the role of firearms in America, conducts research on firearms violence, and explores new ways to decrease firearm-related death and injury.






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