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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

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Section One: The Capability of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle

Section Two: The Threats

Section Three: Tools for Terror

Section Four: Proliferating for Profit

Section Five: The Future is Now

Endnotes

 

This is the full text of the October 2001 Violence Policy Center study 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. For information on how to order a hard copy of this study, please return to the publications page.

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 All contents � 2001 Violence Policy Center

 


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.