Arkansas School Shooting Focuses New Attention on Youth Gun Culture
For Release: Thursday, March 26, 1998 New Violence Policy Center Document Set Details Marketing and Recruitment Efforts by National Rifle Association and Gun Industry The massacre of children by children at a Jonesboro, Arkansas middle school has focused new attention…
New Rule Would Create Loophole in Brady Law, Undermine Instant Background Check
For Release: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 Violence Policy Center Fights “Giant Leap Backwards” The federal government has quietly proposed a little-noticed regulation that will dramatically weaken the Brady Law in 29 states, according to comments filed today by the Violence…
VPC Releases Gun Industry Ads Exposing Giant Assault Weapon Loophole
For Release: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 Senate to Vote Wednesday on Feinstein Amendment to Block Sale of “Killer Clips” The Violence Policy Center today released a package of gun industry advertisements showing how high-capacity magazines – which were outlawed under the 1994…
VPC Analyst’s New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool
For Release: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 “Making a Killing” is Groundbreaking Expose of Gun Business In a book published by The New Press this month, VPC Senior Policy Analyst Tom Diaz reveals how the gun industry has responded to stagnation in…
VPC Hails Schumer Bill to Prevent Internet From Becoming “On-Line Arms Bazaar”
For Release: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 Kristen Rand, director of federal policy for the Violence Policy Center, issued the following statement today at a press conference unveiling The Internet Gun Trafficking Act of 1999: I would like to thank Senator Charles…
Guns Reportedly Used in Littleton Had Combat-Style Designs
For Release: Friday, April 23, 1999 Two of the guns reportedly used in Tuesday’s Colorado school massacre are designed specifically for use against human targets, the Violence Policy Center said today. According to this morning’s Denver Post, police have identified a modified Intratec…
Gun Industry Imperils National Security with Sales of Military Sniper Rifles
For Release: Monday, May 3, 1999 Powerful Weapons Can Shoot Down Airplanes, Penetrate Armor From Over a Mile Away New VPC Report Exposes Aggressive Marketing Efforts, Burgeoning Subculture of Sniper Enthusiasts The gun industry’s sale of military sniper rifles to…
VPC Demonstrates How Weak Senate Gun Bill Allows “Junk Locks”
For Release: Tuesday, June 8, 1999 House Amendment Would Fix Problem, Add Quality Standards The Violence Policy Center demonstrated at a press conference today how the lack of quality standards undermines a Senate-passed bill mandating safety devices for handguns. The VPC…
VPC Denounces House Gun Bill
For Release: Wednesday, June 9, 1999 NRA-Blessed Bill is Spin Control, Not Gun Control The Violence Policy Center today denounced the gun control provisions in the House leadership’s new proposed juvenile justice bill as a tangle of loopholes designed…
Gun Industry Loses in Court Again
For Release: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Massachusetts Ruling Upholds Nation’s First Consumer Regulation of Guns The Violence Policy Center applauded today’s landmark ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which hands a major defeat to the gun industry and paves the…