50 Organizations Announce Opposition to McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill
For Release: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 Letter Sent to Senate Today Includes Groups Representing: Consumers, Children, Civil Rights, Doctors, Police, and Women WASHINGTON A group of 50 organizations today sent a letter opposing the McCain-Lieberman gun show bill [S. 890]…
Statement of M. Kristen Rand, Legislative Director, Violence Policy Center
For Release: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 The Violence Policy Center (VPC) strongly supports Senator Reed’s legislation to close the gun show loophole. The VPC first uncovered the threat posed by gun show sales in its 1996 study Gun Shows in America: Tupperware…
Attorney General Nominee Ashcroft Member of National Rifle Association
For Release: Friday, January 26, 2001 How Can the Nation’s Chief Law Enforcement Official be a Member of an Organization that Compares Federal Law Enforcement Agents to Nazis, VPC Asks WASHINGTON, DC As a member of the National Rifle Association,…
Violence Policy Center Releases Report Detailing Ashcroft Pro-Gun Record
For Release: Tuesday, January 9, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC The Violence Policy Center (VPC), a national organization working to reduce gun death and injury in America, today released John Ashcroft: The Wrong Choice to Enforce America’s Gun Laws, an eight-page report detailing…
Violence Policy Center Opposes Nomination of John Ashcroft For U.S. Attorney General
For Release: Thursday, January 4, 2001 National Rifle Association Will Be Running The Justice Department Under Ashcroft, VPC Warns WASHINGTON The Violence Policy Center (VPC), a national organization working to reduce gun death and injury in America, today announced its…
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
For Release: Thursday, December 14, 2000 Report Reveals Latest Effort by Gunmakers to Market Firearms to Children and Teens and Should be Warning to Unaware Holiday Shoppers WASHINGTON, DC The Violence Policy Center (VPC), joined by Representative Ed Markey (D-MA),…
Announcement of Planned NRA Cafe and Store in Times Square Latest Proof of National Rifle Association’s Appetite for Destruction
For Release: Friday, May 19, 2000 In reaction to today’s announcement at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual meeting that the organization planned to open an NRA cafe and store in New York City’s Times Square, the Violence Policy Center…
Joe Camel with Feathers – Appendix Three: The Controversial Views of NRA Research Coordinator Paul Blackman on Kids and Guns
The National Rifle Association argues that guns and their inherent lethality are not the issue, but rather the behavior of children (or their parents) when they are around firearms—essentially guns don’t kill, kids do. Eddie Eagle materials present firearms as an…
Joe Camel with Feathers – Appendix One: The History of Eddie Eagle
NRA President Marion Hammer launched the Eddie Eagle program in her home state of Florida in 1988 in an effort to kill child access prevention (CAP) legislation being considered by the state assembly that year. The impetus for the CAP…
Joe Camel with Feathers – Section Three: “The Safest Thing is to Not Keep a Gun at Home”
Contrary to the claims of the National Rifle Association, public health research suggests that “gun safety” programs have little effect in reducing firearms death and injury. The American Academy of Pediatricsq Committee on Injury and Poison Prevention has concluded: Firearm safety…