Press Release Index:

2009

• Gun Violence Prevention Organizations Call on President Obama to Use Executive Authority to Ban Import of Armor-Piercing Pistol Used in Fort Hood Attack (11/19/2009)
  
  
• Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed 8 Law Enforcement Officers, 77 Private Citizens Over Two and a Half Year Period According to New On-Line Resource That Tallies News Reports of CCW Killings (11/17/2009)
  
  
• Fort Hood Mass Shooting, Leaving 13 Dead and 28 Injured, Latest Example of Price Paid for Deadly Firepower Available to Americans (11/06/2009)
  
  
• Louisiana Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men According to VPC Study Released Annually for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/22/2009)
  
  
• Pittsburgh Fitness Center Attack Only Most Recent Mass Shooting Committed by Concealed Handgun Permit Holder (08/06/2009)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Statement on Defeat of Thune Amendment Creating National Concealed Handgun System (07/22/2009)
  
  
• Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Kill 7 Police, 44 Private Citizens Over Two-Year Period (07/20/2009)
  
  
• National Gun Violence Prevention Groups Express Outrage That in Wake of Shootings, U.S. Senate is Poised to Consider Legislation to Dramatically Weaken State Concealed Handgun Laws (07/13/2009)
  
  
• Over 90 Percent of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S., New GAO Report Finds (06/18/2009)
  
  
• NRA Holds Annual Meeting in State Ranked #6 in Overall Gun Death, in City Where Gun Dealers Help Feed U.S.-Mexico Border Violence (05/15/2009)
  
  
• States with Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (05/06/2009)
  
  
• Mexican Gun Traffickers Easily Obtain Military-Style Weapons from U.S. Civilian Gun Market, New Analysis of Federal Criminal Court Records Confirms (04/15/2009)
  
  
• Report Urges President to Use Existing Law to Cut Off Flow of Military-Style Guns to Mexico (03/31/2009)
  
  
• U.S. Can Act Immediately to Halt Import of AK-47 Assault Rifles Fueling Gun Violence on U.S./Mexico Border, VPC Tells Congress (03/18/2009)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Feeds Gun Violence on U.S./Mexico Border, Violence Policy Center Analyst Tells Congress (03/12/2009)
  
  
• National Gun Violence Prevention Organizations Call for Effective Federal Assault Weapons Ban in Wake of Alabama Rampage Shooting Leaving 11 Dead, Including Shooter (03/11/2009)
  
  
• New Study Shows Need for Improved Data on Youth Gang Violence and Guns in California (02/26/2009)
  
  
• Pennsylvania Leads Nation in Per Capita Rate of Black Homicide Victimization (01/26/2009)

2008

• “Big Boomers”—Handguns With Rifle Power Capable of Penetrating Body Armor—Are Growing Threat to Lives of Law Enforcement Officers, According to New VPC Study (12/17/2008)
  
  
• Nevada Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men for Second Year in a Row According to VPC Study Released Annually for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/25/2008)
  
  
• Black Women Murdered by Men are Most Often Killed with a Gun, Almost Always by Someone They Know, According to New VPC Study Released Each Year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (09/25/2008)
  
  
• House of Representatives Votes to Repeal District of Columbia's Gun Laws (09/17/2008)
  
  
• House of Representatives Scheduled to Vote on Bill to Repeal District of Columbia's Gun Laws (09/16/2008)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center on Supreme Court Ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller Overturning DC Handgun Ban (06/26/2008)
  
  
• "Pro-Gun" States Lead the Nation in Per Capita Firearm Death Rates (04/24/2008)
  
  
• More Than 1,100 Murder-Suicide Deaths–From the Virginia Tech Massacre to Domestic Disputes–Occurred in 2007, New Study Estimates (04/09/2008)
  
  
• Brooklyn Gunmaker May Have Shipped Loaded Guns for Sale (04/03/2008)
  
  
• Supreme Court Prepares to Hear DC Gun Case as National Support for Banning Handguns Hits 59 Percent (03/17/2008)
  
  
• Statement of National Gun Violence Prevention Organizations in Wake of Northern Illinois University Shooting (02/15/2008)
  
  
• Missouri Leads Nation in Per Capita Rate Of Black Homicide Victimization (01/29/2008)

2007

• Gun Control Groups Criticize Background Check Bill Passed by Congress (12/19/2007)
  
  
• Nevada Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men According to VPC Study Released Each Year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/18/2007)
  
  
• Black Women Murdered by Men are Most Often Killed with a Gun, Almost Always by Someone They Know, According to New VPC Study Released Each Year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (09/18/2007)
  
  
• Number of Gun Dealers in U.S. Drops Almost 80 Percent Since 1994—From 245,628 to 50,630—New Violence Policy Center (VPC) Report Reveals (08/15/2007)
  
  
• First-Ever National State-by-State Study of Drive-By Shootings Reveals Data on Victims, Time, Location (07/30/2007)
  
  
• National Gun Violence Prevention Groups Voice Concern About Dangerous Components of Bill to Improve Gun Background Check System (07/25/2007)
  
  
• Threat of Handgun Ban Repeal Puts Lives of DC Residents in Supreme Court Balance (07/16/2007)
  
  
• U.S. House Appropriations Committee Rejects Amendments to Help Prevent Illegal Gun Trafficking (07/12/2007)
  
  
• U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Votes to Keep Comprehensive Crime Gun Trace Data Secret Under "Tiahrt Amendment" (06/28/2007)
  
  
• Alleged Fort Dix Terrorists Reportedly Trained With Yugoslavian SKS Assault Rifle Model Specifically Approved for Import by Bush Administration (05/08/2007)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Statement on Virginia Tech Shooting, Deadliest in U.S. History (04/16/2007)
  
  
• As National Rifle Association Meets in St. Louis, MO, This Week, New Comprehensive Survey Reveals That Gun Ownership Has Declined Dramatically Over Past 35 Years (04/10/2007)
  
  
• Court Overturns DC Handgun Ban (03/09/2007)
  
  
• Pennsylvania Leads Nation in Per Capita Rate of Black Homicide Victimization (01/29/2007)

2006

• National Rifle Association Suffers Self-Proclaimed “Biggest Election Disaster in Nearly 15 Years” (11/08/2007)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Statement on White House Conference on School Safety: “The Bush Administration is in Denial Regarding the Role Guns Play in School Shootings” (10/10/2006)
  
  
• Gun Violence Prevention, Youth, and Community Groups Urge Washington Redskins to Cancel October 17 Shooting Fundraiser With National Rifle Association (NRA) (10/10/2006)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Backgrounder on Facts Relevant to Pennsylvania Amish School Shooting (10/03/2006)
  
  
• Alaska Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men According to VPC Study Released Each Year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/20/2006)
  
  
• U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Rejects Amendment to Help Law Enforcement Stop Illegal Gun Trafficking (07/13/2006)
  
  
• U.S. House Vote to Stop Enforcement of Federal Child Safety Lock Law Panders to Gun Lobby, Ignores Grave Risk to Children (06/29/2006)
  
  
• New NRA Post-Katrina Fundraising Campaign Targeting Mayors and Police Signals Return to Organization’s Days of “Jack Booted Government Thugs” Extremist Rhetoric (05/18/2006)
  
  
• Ten Murder-Suicides Occur Each Week in America New VPC Study Reveals, Almost All Perpetrated With Guns (05/02/2006)
  
  
• VPC Statement on Wal-Mart Decision to Stop Gun Sales: “No Surprise” (04/14/2006)
  
  
• Number of Gun Dealers in U.S. Drops Almost 80 Percent—From 245,628 to 54,902—Since 1994, New Violence Policy Center (VPC) Report Reveals (03/08/2006)
  
  
• Sex Offender Registry Bill Scheduled to be Considered by House Today Will Allow Misdemeanor Sex Offenders Continued Access to Guns—Despite Ban Passed by House on Voice Vote on Similar Bill Last Year (03/08/2006)
  
  
• Cheney Shooting Latest Addition to Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Injured and Killed by Guns During Bush Administration (02/13/2006)
  
  
• "Pro-Gun" States Lead Nation in Per Capita Firearm Death Rates New Violence Policy Center Analysis Reveals (02/07/2006)
  
  
• Federal Indictment Confirms Again That the 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifle Is a Weapon of Choice Among Terrorists (02/06/2006)
  
  
• Goleta, California, Postal Shooting Latest Example of Unique Facilitating Role Guns Play in Murder-Suicide (01/31/2006)

2005

• Violence Policy Center Backgrounder on Gun Crime, Gun Possession, and Gun Exposure in Tennessee (11/09/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Hails Passage of San Francisco Handgun Ban (11/09/2005)
  
  
• Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito’s Views Could Imperil Most Federal Gun, Ammo, and Explosives Laws, New Violence Policy Center Backgrounder Shows (11/02/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center (VPC) Statement on U.S. House Passage of Bill Protecting the Unregulated Gun Industry (10/20/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Urges Washington Redskins to Withdraw From Shooting Fundraiser With National Rifle Association as NRA Lobbies on Capitol Hill to Overturn D.C.'s Gun Laws (10/11/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Issues Annual Report When Men Murder Women (09/26/2005)
  
  
• U.S. House Passes Measure to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Sex Offenders (09/14/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center (VPC) Statement on Senate Passage of Gun Liability Bill (07/29/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center (VPC) Response to National Rifle Association Charges That VPC Misrepresented Beretta as a Foreign Gunmaker (07/26/2005)
  
  
• Senate Majority Leader Frist Says American Gun Companies at Risk if Congress Doesn't Pass Bill to Shield the Gun Industry from Lawsuits—But Cites Italian Gunmaker Beretta as Example (07/25/2005)
  
  
• National Security Experts Confirm Terror Threat Posed by 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (07/19/2005)
  
  
• Columbus, Ohio, Assault Weapons Ban Greater Tragedy to NRA Than Columbine Massacre, NRA's Wayne LaPierre Reveals (07/18/2005)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• New Study Shows District of Columbia's Tough Gun Laws Work to Prevent Youth Suicide--No Child 16 Years of Age or Younger in DC Was the Victim of Firearm Suicide According to Most Recent Federal Data (07/12/2005)
  
  
• Congress Should Reject Dangerous Legislation (H.R. 1288) Repealing the District of Columbia's Longstanding Laws Banning Assault Weapons and Handguns (06/28/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Launches Web Site to Aid Citywide Effort to Stop Congressional Repeal of DC Handgun Ban (06/16/2005)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Hails New York State Assembly's Passage of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Ban (05/25/2005)
  
  
• Riverside Mass Shooting Fits Tragic Pattern Identified by Violence Policy Center in Largest Study of Murder-Suicide Ever Conducted (05/11/2005)
  
  
• Despite Mass Shooting in Wisconsin Leaving Eight Dead and Four Injured, Congressional Panel Plans Hearing Tomorrow on Bill to Shield Gun Industry from Civil Liability (03/14/2005)
  
  
• House-Passed Class Action Bill (S.5) Protects Gun Industry, Leaves Gun Consumers And Victims of Gun Violence in Legal Limbo (02/17/2005)
  
  
• Senate Class Action Bill (S. 5) Protects Gun Industry And Leaves Gun Consumers And Victims of Gun Violence in Legal Limbo (02/09/2005)
  
  
• VPC Joins Representatives Moran, Kennedy, and McCarthy in Calling for Federal Ban on 50 Caliber Anti-armor Sniper Rifles (02/08/2005)
  
  
• SKS Assault Rifle Reported as Weapon Used in Ambush Attack on Police in Ceres, CA, Leaving One Officer Dead And One Critically Wounded (01/11/2005)

2004

• Wisconsin Hunter Murders Show Need For Effective Assault Weapons Ban—Armed Hunters No Match For SKS Assault Rifle (11/22/2004)
  
  
• VPC Applauds Introduction of Federal Legislation to Permanently Eliminate NRA-Backed Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (10/08/2004)
  
  
• VPC Statement on U.S. House Vote to Repeal DC Gun Laws (09/29/2004)
  
  
• VPC Releases Annual Report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2002 Homicide Data (09/28/2004)
  
  
• Congress Poised to Vote on National Rifle Association-Backed Bill to Repeal DC Gun Laws (09/20/2004)
  
  
• California Leads Nation in War on Terror—Becomes First State in Nation to Ban 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (09/14/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Issues Statement on Expiration of Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Press Release (09/13/2004)
  
  
• Arizona, Nevada, and Utah Comprise the "UZI Triangle" of Copycat Assault Weapon Manufacturers, According to Violence Policy Center (08/25/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Joins Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Calling For Federal Ban on 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (08/18/2004)
  
  
• More Than 50 Members of Entertainment Community Sign Letter Calling on President Bush, U.S. Congress, to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (07/21/2004)
  
  
• New Study Reveals More Than 40 Gunmakers Currently Marketing Assault Weapons—Including UZIs, AK-47s, AR-15s, MAC-10s, Galils, MP5s, and Others—Despite 1994 Federal Ban (07/20/2004)
  
  
• VPC Applauds Introduction of Federal Legislation to Permanently Eliminate NRA-backed Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (07/01/2004)
  
  
• U.S. House Appropriations Committee Inserts Pro-Gun Language in Spending Bill in Effort to Torpedo New York City Lawsuit Against Firearms Industry (06/23/2004)
  
  
• SKS Assault Rifles–A Menace to Law Enforcement (pdf format) (06/18/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Offers Strong Support For New York State Legislation to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (06/15/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Warns Nation's Law Enforcement Officers of New Handgun Threat to Police Body Armor (06/02/2004)
  
  
• New Assault Weapon Manufacturer—Vulcan Armament—Brags "The Guns of the Special Forces Are Now on Sale in America!" (05/19/2004)
  
  
• VPC Offers Strong Support for Federal Legislation to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/03/2004)
  
  
• Revelation That Romanian AK-47s Seized by Italian Authorities Are Legal Proves Need to Strengthen, Not Just Renew, Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/29/2004)
  
  
• Five Years After Columbine Shooting, Assault Weapons Continue to Threaten Public Safety, Illustrating Need to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/19/2004)
  
  
• Federal District Court Strongly Rejects CATO Institute-Backed Challenge to Washington, DC Handgun Ban (03/31/2004)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Only Six Months Before Federal Assault Weapons Ban Expires (03/12/2004)
  
  
• Illinois Has More Assault Weapon Manufacturers Than Any Other State, New Study Shows (03/03/2004)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Hails Senate Defeat of Immunity Bill, Urges Congress to Focus on Passing Effective Assault Weapons Legislation (03/02/2004)
  
  
• Senate-Passed Assault Weapons "Ban" Will Do Little to Keep Assault Weapons Off Our Streets, Violence Policy Center (VPC) Warns (03/02/2004)
  
  
• National Rifle Association-Backed Amendment to Gun Industry Immunity Bill Would Repeal 28-Year-Old District of Columbia Handgun Ban (03/01/2004)
  
  
• VPC Applauds U.S. Senate's Rejection of Omnibus Spending Conference Report Loaded with Provisions That Would Arm Criminals, Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers (01/20/2004)
  
  
• Federal District Court Strongly Rejects National Rifle Association Second Amendment Challenge to Washington, DC Handgun Ban (01/15/2004)

2003

• Provisions Tucked Into Omnibus Spending Conference Report Would Arm Criminals And Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers, Violence Policy Center Charges (12/09/2003)

• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to U.S. Supreme Court Refusal to Review Silveira v. Lockyer (12/01/2003)

• U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Dismisses Terror Threat of Pistol Disguised as Pen (11/17/2003)
  
  
• Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Allows Sale of Handgun Disguised as a Pen Despite Law Enforcement Warning (10/28/2003)
  
  
• Today's Action by U.S. Senate to Reject Class Action Legislation Is Victory For Victims of Gun Violence And Gun Consumers (10/22/2003)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Applauds Introduction of "Terrorist Firearms Detection Act of 2003" (10/22/2003)
  
  
• On One-Year Anniversary of DC-Area Sniper Shootings, Violence Policy Center Strongly Supports Lautenberg and McCarthy Bills (S. 1431, H.R. 2038) to Renew and Strengthen the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (10/01/2003)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Launches Campaign and Website to Engage Grassroots—www.banassaultweapons.org—as Part of Growing Effort to Renew and Strengthen Federal Assault Weapons Ban (09/30/2003)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases Annual Report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2001 Homicide Data (09/25/2003)
  
  
• In Unanimous Vote, Contra Costa, CA, Board of Supervisors Backs Ban on 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (08/13/2003)
  
  
• House Passes Appropriations Bill That Would License Tens of Thousands of New "Kitchen-Table" Gun Dealers, Undermine Gun Dealer Oversight (07/25/2003)
  
  
• Federal Judge Dismisses NAACP Lawsuit Against Gun Industry, But in 176-Page Decision Finds That Industry Practices Contribute to Gun Violence in New York (07/21/2003)
  
  
• Eleventh-Hour NRA Amendment to Justice Department Appropriations Bill Would License Tens of Thousands of New "Kitchen-Table" Gun Dealers (07/21/2003)
  
  
• U.S. Terror Training Indictment Echoes Violence Policy Center Warning (06/27/2003)
  
  
• VPC Study Explains Assault Weapons' Spray-Fire Design (05/22/2003)
  
  
• Majority Leader DeLay's Promise to Let Assault Weapons Ban Expire Will Keep Cop-Killer Guns on U.S. Streets (05/14/2003)
  
  
• One in Five Law Enforcement Officers Slain in the Line of Duty Is Killed with an Assault Weapon, New VPC Study Reveals (05/08/2003)
  
  
• VPC Offers Strong Support for McCarthy-Conyers Assault Weapons Ban (05/08/2003)
  
  
• Pennsylvania School Shooting Deaths of Student and Principal Focus Attention on Tragedy of Murder-Suicide (04/24/2003)
  
  
• VPC Welcomes President Bush's Reaffirmation of Campaign Pledge to Support Reauthorization of Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/14/2003)
  
  
• House Passes Bill to Protect Reckless, Negligent Gun Manufacturers and "Bad Apple" Gun Dealers (04/09/2003)
  
  
• Attorney General John Ashcroft Reverses Bush Administration Position on Renewing Federal Ban on Assault Weapons (03/05/2003)
  
  
• Latest Edition of Firearms Production in America Shows Handgun Production in 2000 was Lowest Since 1978 (03/05/2003)
  
  
• 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles That Can Destroy Aircraft Easier to Buy Than Handguns (01/31/2003)

2002

• In Unanimous Ruling, U.S. Supreme Court Shuts Door on NRA-Backed Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (12/10/2002)
  
  
• Federal Court Upholds California Assault Weapons Ban, Strongly Rebuts Ashcroft Justice Department View That Second Amendment Guarantees an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms (12/05/2002)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response To Florida Jury Verdict Against Gun Distributor (11/15/2002)
  
  
• Gun Used by Washington, DC-Area Sniper Illustrates Need to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (10/28/2002)
  
  
• U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Federal Guns-For-Felons Case (10/16/2002)
  
  
• VPC Assails Gun Industry Pandering to Sniper Subculture, Calls For Condemnation, Investigation, And Legislation to Stop Deadly Trade (10/10/2002)
  
  
• Snipers—Predictable Consequence of Gun Industry Marketing (10/08/2002)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2000 Homicide Data (10/02/2002)
  
  
• H.R. 2037 Gives Special Protection to the Unregulated Gun Industry (09/25/2002)
  
  
• VPC Releases New Study No Deal: The Drop in Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers in America (09/25/2002)
  
  
• Los Angeles First City in Nation to Vote to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (09/24/2002)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Condemns Bush Administration Decision to Arm Pilots (09/05/2002)
  
  
• CIA Letter Raises Further Doubts About Barrett Story on Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles to Bin Laden (08/06/2002)
  
  
• Fort Bragg Tragedies Focus Attention on National Plague of Murder-Suicide (08/05/2002)
  
  
• Attorney General Ashcroft Misled Congress and the American People on Legality of Checking Terrorist Gun Purchase Records (07/24/2002)
  
  
• VPC Denounces Passage of "Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act"—Urges Senate Not To Make the Same Mistake (07/11/2002)
  
  
• VPC Statement Opposing "Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act" (07/10/2002)
  
  
• Fact Sheet on the Los Angeles International Airport Shooting and Statistics on Firearms Violence in California (07/08/2002)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to GAO Report: "Less Time Means More Domestic Gun Crime" (06/26/2002)
  
  
• VPC Releases License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime (06/12/2002)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Second Amendment Cases (06/10/2002)
  
  
• Statement of Violence Policy Center in Response to D.C. Gun Crime Defendants Using U.S. Department of Justice Second Amendment Policy Shift to Strike Down Gun Laws (05/30/2002)
  
  
• Ashcroft and NRA Provide Second Amendment Gun Defense for Accused American Taliban Terrorist John Walker Lindh (05/16/2002)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Targets Europe For Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/01/2002)
  
  
• VPC Releases Most Comprehensive State-by-State Study Ever Conducted on National Tragedy of Murder-Suicide (04/17/2002)
  
  
• Terminate Federal Guns-for-Felons Program, Violence Policy Center Tells U.S. Supreme Court (04/09/2002)
  
  
• VPC Backgrounder on Guns and France in Wake of Mass Handgun Shooting in Nanterre, France (03/28/2002)
  
  
• VPC Launches New Web Site, www.banhandgunsnow.org, in Conjunction With Release of Paperback Edition of Latest Book, Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns (03/28/2002)
  
  
• New Harvard University Study Shows Direct Link Between Gun Availability And Gun Death Among Children (02/21/2002)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Response to Justice Department Proposal to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Prohibited Aliens (02/13/2002)
  
  
• New VPC Report Debunks Gun Industry Claim That Bin Laden's 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles Were Obtained Through CIA Aid Program (2/13/2002)
  
  
• VPC Releases John Ashcroft: Year One (01/31/2002)
  
  
• VPC Releases The State of the Gun Industry in Response to Nation's Largest Gun Trade Show Being Held in Las Vegas February 2-5, 2002
  
  
• U.S. Supreme Court Decides Today to Hear Case That Could Terminate Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (01/22/2002)

2001

• Gunmakers Urge That Children as Young as Four Years Old Get "A .22 For Christmas," New VPC Report Reveals (12/18/2001)
  
  
• Indiana Factory Shooting Highlights Need For Improved Oversight of Kitchen-Table Gun Dealers (12/07/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Justice Department Protects Terrorist "Gun Rights" While Putting Americans at Risk (12/06/2001)
  
  
• Nearly One Third of Kids Murdered With Handguns Are Shot And Killed by Other Kids, VPC Study Finds (11/28/2001)
  
  
• Jihad Trainees Urged to Use Lax U.S. Gun Laws to Wage Holy War (11/21/2001)
  
  
• Pro-Gun Experts Prove Handguns Are Ineffective Self-Defense Tools, New VPC Study Reveals (11/19/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; African-American Women Three Times More Likely to be Murdered Than White Women (10/30/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; Hispanic Women Suffer From a Higher Female Homicide Rate Than the National Average (10/30/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data (10/17/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Applauds Emerson Decision, Court Upholds Protective Order Gun Ban (10/16/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Gun Industry Armed Osama bin Laden's Terror Network: Al Qaeda Bought 25 Barrett 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (10/07/2001)
  
  
• Even The Safest City in America Cannot Escape Handgun Violence (09/06/2001)
  
  
• VPC Submits Comments on Ashcroft Background Check Proposal—Urges FBI to Reject Ashcroft's Dangerous Proposed Rule (09/05/2001)
  
  
• No Recess for Ashcroft Hypocrisy—DOJ Continues to Undermine its Own Case in Emerson (08/09/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Decision Cloaked in Secrecy— VPC Files Freedom of Information Act Request on Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter (08/02/2001)
  
  
• VPC Praises Effort to Preserve the Brady Law (07/26/2001)
  
  
• Just Plain Wrong—VPC Exposes Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter to NRA to Be Error-Ridden Fraud (07/25/2001)
  
  
• House Votes to Weaken Brady Law (07/18/2001)
  
  
• VPC Endorses Schumer Proposal to Protect Brady Law From Being Gutted by Ashcroft Justice Department (06/29/2001)
  
  
• NRA Life Member John Ashcroft Announces Plan to Destroy National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Records (06/28/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge to Brady Law's Retention of National Instant Check Records (06/25/2001)
  
  
• 50 Organizations Announce Opposition to McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (06/12/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Pro-Gun Actions Turning Department of Justice Into NRA Franchise - (06/06/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Sues Attorney General Ashcroft Over Unlawful Suspension of Brady Law Regulation—Further Evidence of Shift in Justice Department Gun Policy (06/04/2001)
  
  
• Ashcroft Letter to NRA Reveals Shift in Justice Department Policy, Undermines Enforcement of Gun Laws (05/23/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Opposes McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (05/15/2001)
  
  
• Bush After-The-Fact, NRA-Backed Prosecution Strategy Does Nothing to Prevent Gun Death and Injury (05/14/2001)
  
  
• Backgrounder on the Manufacturer of the Gun Reportedly Used in the Alleged Shooting by Nathaniel Brazill at Lake Worth Middle School in Lake Worth, Florida (05/10/2001)
  
  
• VPC Releases New Study, Hispanics and Firearms Violence (05/08/2001)
  
  
• Centro para Política sobre la Violencia emite nuevo estudio, Los hispanos y la violencia con armas de fuego
  
  
• Study Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation's Top Lead Polluters (05/01/2001)
  
  
• Statement of M. Kristen Rand, Legislative Director, Violence Policy Center (04/18/2001)
  
  
• VPC Releases Where'd They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963 to 2001 (04/18/2001)
  
  
• VPC Releases Latest Edition of Firearms Production in America (04/10/2001)
  
  
• Bush Budget Provides More Guns, Less Prevention (04/09/2001)
  
  
• In Wake of Latest School Shooting, Bush Adminisration Officials Refuse to Take Action, Deny Reality of Gun Violence in America (03/23/2001)



• California Gun Laws and Firearm Violence Statistics for California (03/22/2001)



• Santana High School Shooting Latest Proof of Need For Handgun Ban - (03/05/2001)
  
  
• White House Shooting Latest Proof of Need For Handgun Ban (02/07/2001)
  
  
• For Every Time a Women Uses a Handgun to Kill in Self-Defense, 101 Women Die in Handgun Murders, New VPC Report Finds (01/31/2001)
  
  
• Attorney General Nominee Ashcroft Member of National Rifle Association (01/26/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases Report Detailing Ashcroft Pro-Gun Record (01/09/2001)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Opposes Nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S. Attorney General (01/04/2001)
  
  

2000

• U.S. Representative Markey Joins Violence Policy Center for Release of New VPC Report From Gun Games to Gun Stores: Why the Firearms Industry Wants Their Video Games on Your Child's Wish List (12/14/2000)
  
  
• Violence Policy Center Releases Firearms Production In America, 1975-1997—A State-by-State Breakdown (12/06/2000)
  
  
• VPC Continues The Fight to Require Background Checks at "Tupperware® Parties For Criminals"— U.S. Senator Jack Reed to Take Over Gun Show Loophole Legislation (12/05/2000)



• Violence Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1998 Homicide Data (10/26/2000)
  
  
• VPC's Diaz Exposes Gun Industry's Aggressive Recruitment of Children to Gun Culture at Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Marketing Violence to Children (09/13/2000)

• VPC Releases License to Kill III: The Texas Concealed Handgun Law's Legacy of Crime and Violence (08/09/2000)

• VPC Lauds Introduction of Blagojevich Bill to Ban "Pocket Rockets" (07/18/2000)

• New VPC Study Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry's Sale of Increased Killing Power Released Today at Chicago News Conference (07/17/2000)

• Violence Policy Center Releases GUNLAND USA: A State-by-State Ranking of Gun Shows, Gun Retailers, Machine Guns, and Gun Manufacturers (06/28/2000)

• Announcement of Planned NRA Café and Store in Times Square Latest Proof of National Rifle Association's Appetite for Destruction (05/19/2000)

• NRA Leader Wayne LaPierre's "Homogenization" Quote Most Recent Addition to NRA History of Racist Commentary (05/16/2000)

• Shooting at National Zoo Latest Proof of Need for Handgun Ban (04/25/2000)

• Fact Sheet on Firearms Violence Among Black Children and Youth (04/25/2000)

• Smith & Wesson "Clarification" of Agreement Between Government and Gunmaker Exposes "Landmark" Settlement to be a Sham (04/12/2000)

• VPC Releases New Study—Guns for Felons: How the NRA Works to Rearm Criminals (03/21/2000)

• Fact Sheet on Smith & Wesson (03/17/2000)

• New Survey Reveals More Americans Favor Handgun Ban Than Own Handguns (03/15/2000)

• VPC Releases New Handgun Ban Study, Unsafe in Any Hands: Why America Needs to Ban Handguns (03/01/2000)

• Fact Sheet on the Manufacturer of the Gun Reportedly Used in the Shooting at Theo J. Buell Elementary in Flint, Michigan (03/01/2000)

• New VPC Report Details How Liability Legislation (H.R. 2366) Would Protect Manufacturers of Guns Used in 1999 Columbine Massacre (02/15/2000)

• U.S. Senate to Debate Liability of Gun Manufacturers (01/26/2000)

• Gun Industry Kicks Off Annual Trade Show on Holiday Honoring Assassinated Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (01/12/2000)

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