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Gun Shows in America

Tupperware® Parties for Criminals

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section One: The History of McClure-Volkmer

Section Two: McClure-Volkmer's Gun Show Legacy

Section Three: Changes Seen at Gun Shows as the Result of McClure-Volkmer

Section Four: Illegal Trafficking at Gun Shows

Section Five: Where the Famous and Infamous Shop

Section Six: "Truck Loads of Parts Are Readily Available"

Section Seven: Trends

Section Eight: Recommendations


This is the full text of the July 1996 Violence Policy Center study Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for Criminals , minus the study's appendices of gun show advertisements and Congressional testimony cited in its text.

 

 

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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.