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  • Another Mass Shooting, More Convictions, and Other Innocent Victims Murdered by Concealed Handgun Permit Holders: VPC Concealed Carry Killers June Update

    For Release: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Washington, DC–A Florida mass shooting that resulted in the murder of four women, an innocent 17-year-old gunned down by a 61-year-old man in a case of mistaken identity, and a…

  • Violence Policy Center Statement on McDonald v. Chicago Decision

    For Release:  Monday, June 28, 2010 Washington, DC–Following today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago that the Second Amendment is applicable to the states, Violence Policy Center Legislative Director Kristen Rand issued the following statement:…

  • Hialeah Mass Shooting Only Most Recent by a Concealed Handgun Permit Holder

    For Release:  Friday, June 11, 2010 At Least 65 Innocent People Have Been Killed in Recent Mass Shootings Involving Concealed Handgun Permit Holders  Washington, DC–Gerardo Regalado, the 38-year-old man who shot seven women, killing four,…

  • States with Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death

    For Release: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska, Alabama, and Nevada Have Highest Gun Death Rates Washington, DC–States with higher gun ownership rates and weak gun laws have the highest rates of overall gun death…

  • Murder Arrests, Murder-Suicide Among New Concealed Handgun Permit Holder Incidents Reported in VPC’s “Concealed Carry Killers” May Update

    For Release:  Thursday, May 27, 2010 Washington, DC—Arrests for murder and a murder-suicide are among the new incidents involving concealed handgun permit holders detailed in the May update of Concealed Carry Killers, a Violence Policy Center…

  • National Rifle Association—Embracing Tea Partiers and Anti-Government Rhetoric—Meets in Charlotte, NC

    For Release:  Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck Featured Speakers at NRA Convention  Washington, D.C.–This weekend, Tea Party advocates Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will be featured speakers at the National Rifle…

  • Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 161 Since May 2007, Including 9 Law Enforcement Officers—“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site April Update

    For Release:  Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers in addition to 152 private citizens (including 15 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) since…

  • NRA Once Again Embracing Anti-Government Rhetoric

    For Release: Thursday, April 15, 2010 New Study Details Links Between NRA Election Volunteer Coordinators and Tea Party Movement  Washington, D.C.–Fifteen years ago former National Rifle Association (NRA) member Timothy McVeigh–motivated by his fear and hatred…

  • Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 151 Since May 2007, Including 9 Law Enforcement Officers—“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site March Update

    For Release:  Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers in addition to 142 private citizens (including 15 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) since…

  • Police Are Involved in More Than One Out of Four Assault Weapons Incidents, Violence Policy Center Study Shows

    For Release:  Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Washington, DC–More than one out of four assault weapons incidents involve police, according to “Target: Law Enforcement—Assault Weapons in the News” (https://vpc.org/studies/targetle.pdf) a new study released today by the…

  • Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed 139 Since May 2007, Including 9 Law Enforcement Officers—“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site February Update

    For Release: Friday, February 19, 2010 Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers in addition to 130 private citizens (including 14 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) since May…

  • Pennsylvania Leads Nation in Per Capita Rate of Black Homicide Victimization

    For Release: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 State’s Black Homicide Victimization Rate of 36.36 Per 100,000 is Nearly Seven Times National Overall Homicide Rate of 5.30 per 100,000 Washington, DC–Pennsylvania leads the nation in the rate of…

  • Appomattox, VA, Attack Only Most Recent Mass Shooting Involving a Concealed Handgun Permit Holder

    For Release:  Tuesday, January 20, 2010 At Least 51 Innocent People Have Been Killed in Recent Mass Shootings Involving Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Washington, DC–Christopher Bryan Speight, the 39-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed…

  • Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 9 Law Enforcement Officers, 108 Private Citizens Since May 2007–“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site January Update

    For Release: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers in addition to 108 private citizens (including 13 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) since May…

  • As CA Assembly Committee Considers Concealed Handgun Bill Today, On-Line Resource Reveals That Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 9 Law Enforcement Officers, 108 Private Citizens Since May 2007

    For Release:  Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Findings Decimate False Assertion by Bill Sponsor Steve Knight That Lax Concealed Weapons Laws Have Not Resulted In “Problems or Crimes by Permit Holders” Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders…

  • Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 9 Law Enforcement Officers, 98 Private Citizens Since May 2007–“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site December Update

    For Release: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers and 98 private citizens (including 12 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) since May 2007 according to…

  • Gun Violence Prevention Organizations Call on President Obama to Use Executive Authority to Ban Import of Armor-Piercing Pistol Used in Fort Hood Attack

    For Release: Thursday, November 19, 2009 Washington, DC–In a letter sent today to the White House, America’s six national gun violence prevention (GVP) organizations–the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Violence Policy Center, Coalition to Stop…

  • 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

    For Release: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders killed eight law enforcement officers and 77 private citizens (including 10 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) during the period May 2007 through October…

  • Fort Hood Mass Shooting, Leaving 13 Dead and 28 Injured, Latest Example of Price Paid for Deadly Firepower Available to Americans

    For Release: Friday, November 6, 2009 Washington, DC–Following yesterday’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, leaving 13 dead and 28 injured, two of America’s leading national gun violence prevention organizations Freedom States Alliance and the Violence…

  • Louisiana Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men According to VPC Study Released Annually for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October

    For Release: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 WASHINGTON, DC–Louisiana, with a rate of 2.53 per 100,000, ranked first in the nation in the rate of women killed by men according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC)…