Information on 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles
Violence Policy
Center Fact Sheets
Why
Regulate 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles?
Criminal
Use of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
National
Security Experts Agree: 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles Are Ideal
Tools For Terrorists
Gun
Industry Trade Association Resorts to Deceit After CBS News 60 Minutes
Documents Danger of Fifty Caliber Anti-Armor Rifles
Violence Policy
Center Studies and Reports
Clear
and Present Danger: National Security Experts Warn About the Danger
of Unrestricted Sales of 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles to Civilians
(July 2005)
The
Threat Posed to Helicopters By 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles
(August 2004)
Really
Big Guns, Even Bigger Lies (March 2004)
"Just
Like Bird Hunting" - The Threat to Civil Aviation From 50 Caliber Sniper
Rifles (January
2003)
Sitting
Ducks: The Threat to the Chemical and Refinery Industry From 50 Caliber
Sniper Rifles (August 2002)
The
U.S. Gun Industry and Others Unknown: Evidence Debunking The Gun Industry's
Claim That Osama Bin Laden Got His 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles From The
U.S. Afghan-Aid Program (February 2002)
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 (October 2001)
One
Shot, One Kill: Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles (May 1999)
50 Calibers in
the News
Recent Television
Coverage of the Threat Posed by 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles
"NYPD
To Use High-Powered Rifle From Helicopters," WCBS-TV.com,
August 25, 2005
"The
Brooklyn Connection," POV, July 19, 2005
Dateline
NBC
Examines Threat Posed by 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles, June 19, 2005
"Big
Rifle A Terrorist Tool?," 60 Minutes, May 29, 2005 (original
air date January 9, 2005)
"Buying
Big Guns? No Big Deal," 60 Minutes, March 20, 2005
"Armor-Piercing
Weapons Easy to Acquire?," CNN transcript, February 17,
2005
"Weapon
Of War," WUSA-TV, February 8, 2005
Recent Print Coverage of the Threat Posed by 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles
"Are
These Towers Safe? Why America's nuclear power plants are still so vulnerable
to terrorist attack--and how to make them safer," Time,
June 20, 2005
"Congress
must step up," Centre Daily (PA), June 20, 2005
"House
votes not to ban export of powerful rifle," The Star-Ledger,
June 17, 2005
"'Culture
of life' doesn't apply to Iraq," Springfield News-Leader,
June 7, 2005
"Attack
on town could have been worse," Rocky Mountain News, June
3, 2005
"News
you need to know," Memphis Flyer, June 3, 2005
"McCarthy
Calls for Ban of .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle," Garden City Life,
June 3, 2005
"Taking
aim at sniper rifles," New York Daily News, May 24, 2005
"Too
much firepower," St. Petersburg Times, May 7, 2005
"50
Caliber Sniper Rifles Pose Threat to Civil Aviation," Air Safety
Week, November 3, 2003
Violence Policy
Center Press Releases and Statements
Federal
Indictment Confirms Again That the 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifle
Is a Weapon of Choice Among Terrorists (02/06/2006)
National
Security Experts Confirm Terror Threat Posed by 50 Caliber Anti-Armor
Sniper Rifles (07/19/2005)
House
Judiciary Committee Rejects Amendments to Patriot Act to Keep Guns--Including
50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles--Out of the Hands of Terrorists
(07/13/2005)
Violence
Policy Center Hails New York State Assembly's Passage of 50 Caliber
Sniper Rifle Ban (05/25/2005)
VPC
Joins Representatives Moran, Kennedy, McCarthy, and Waxman in Calling
for Federal Ban on 50 Caliber Anti-armor Sniper Rifles (02/08/2005)
Statement
of Tom Diaz on the Introduction of Federal Legislation to Regulate 50
Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles, February 8, 2005
Violence
Policy Center Joins Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Calling For Federal Ban
on 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (08/18/2004)
Violence
Policy Center Offers Strong Support For New York State Legislation to
Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (06/15/2004)
VPC
Offers Strong Support for Federal Legislation to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper
Rifles (05/03/2004)
Violence
Policy Center Hails Contra Costa, CA, Board of Supervisors' 4-0 Vote
to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (03/24/2004)
Violence
Policy Center Hails New York State Assembly's Passage of 50 Caliber
Sniper Rifle Ban (03/16/2004)
Violence
Policy Center Rebuts "Top Ten Lies" of Fifty Caliber Institute (FCI)
(03/16/2004)
In
Unanimous Vote, Contra Costa, CA, Board of Supervisors Backs Ban on
50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (08/13/2003)
50
Caliber Sniper Rifles That Can Destroy Aircraft Easier to Buy Than Handguns
(01/31/2003)
Los
Angeles First City in Nation to Vote to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles
(09/24/2002)
CIA
Letter Raises Further Doubts About Barrett Story on Sale of 50 Caliber
Sniper Rifles to Bin Laden (08/06/2002)
U.S.
Gun Industry Targets Europe For Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/01/2002)
New
VPC Report Debunks Gun Industry Claim That Bin Laden's 50 Caliber Sniper
Rifles Were Obtained Through CIA Aid Program (2/13/2002)
U.S.
Gun Industry Armed Osama bin Laden's Terror Network: Al Qaeda Bought
25 Barrett 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (10/07/2001)
Gun
Industry Imperils National Security with Sales of Military Sniper Rifles
(05/03/1999)
Federal Legislation
to Regulate 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles
S.
935, "The Fifty Caliber Sniper Weapons Regulation Act of 2005"
H.R.
654, "The 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Reduction Act"
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