Combat Shooting Sets Its Sights On 2004 Olympic Games
For Release: Thursday, July 22, 1999 Activists Worldwide Call on Olympic Officials to Reject Effort Competition Rooted in Violent Fantasy Would Pollute Olympics, Legitimize Powerful Non-Sporting Weapons A campaign to establish combat shooting as an exhibition sport at the 2004…
Olympic Officials Blast Combat Shooting
For Release: Friday, July 23, 1999 IOC Offers Strong Response to Report from Alpers and VPC The International Olympic Committee released a statement today offering its first official opposition to combat shooting, in response to a report issued Thursday by international…
“Pocket Rocket” in LA Postal Killing Shows Gun Industry Excess in Police Sales
For Release: Friday, August 13, 1999 Results of Glock Strategy to Reach Civilian Market The Glock pistol that self-proclaimed racist Buford Furrow used to kill a Los Angeles postal worker illustrates the deadly consequences of the Austrian gun company’s hyper-aggressive marketing…
Fact Sheet on Texas Gun Laws and Statistics on Gun Violence in Texas
For Release: Thursday, September 16, 1999 This fact sheet provides background information for journalists covering yesterday’s shooting at the Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Texas Firearm Laws1 No licensing or registration requirements for purchase or possession of any…
Fear of Debate Over Gun Industry Tactics Prevents Senate Consideration of Bankruptcy Legislation
For Release: Thursday, November 18, 1999 Republicans Stymie Democrats’ Efforts to Offer Amendment to Prevent Gun Manufacturers from “Taking Advantage of the System” Senate Republicans chose today to kill major federal legislation related to bankruptcy protection laws rather than allow…
Fact Sheet on Taurus International Manufacturing Company And its “Wonder-Nine” High-Capacity Semiautomatic Pistols
For Release: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 News reports identify the handgun used in the December 6, 1999 middle school shooting in Ft. Gibson, OK as a Taurus 9mm semiautomatic pistol with a 15-round magazine, sold in 1993. Although the precise…
New VPC Report Lays Out Minimal Terms for Settlement of Litigation Against Gun Industry
For Release: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released The Endgame, a report detailing three areas that must be reformed within the gun industry in order for a settlement of lawsuits filed by major cities against the…
NRA, Gun Industry Attempting to Revise Assault Weapons History
For Release: Tuesday, December 9, 1998 New VPC Report Documents Shift in Party Line on Deadly Military-Style Guns Report Debunks “Myths” NRA Circulating as New Fight Looms on Assault Ban Trying to head off growing pressure to close loopholes in the…
President’s Trigger Lock Deal With Gun Industry Protects Industry–Not Children
For Release: Thursday, October 9, 1997 Today’s announcement by President Clinton and a number of U.S. gun manufacturers that some gun companies will voluntarily supply trigger locks with new handguns will offer far greater benefits to the gun industry than to…
Miami Postal Clerk Who Shot Ex-Wife, Her Friend, and Then Killed Himself Had Florida Concealed Carry License
For Release: Wednesday, September 3, 1997 The Miami postal clerk who yesterday shot and critically wounded his ex-wife, her friend, and then killed himself at a Miami Beach post office had a Florida concealed carry license for the two .357 handguns he…