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  • VPC Submits Comments on Ashcroft Background Check Proposal – Urges FBI to Reject Ashcroft’s Dangerous Proposed Rule

    For Release:  Wednesday, September 5, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the Violence Policy Center (VPC), a national non-profit educational organization working to stop gun death and injury in America, joined by Legal Community Against Violence…

  • No Recess for Ashcroft Hypocrisy – DOJ Continues to Undermine its Own Case in Emerson

    For Release:   Thursday, August 9, 2001 DOJ Remains Silent on Introduction of Ashcroft NRA Letter in Case – Opposes Introduction of VPC Analysis of Ashcroft NRA Letter WASHINGTON, DC -The Violence Policy Center (VPC) learned this…

  • Ashcroft Decision Cloaked in Secrecy – VPC Files Freedom of Information Act Request on Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter

    For Release:   Thursday, August 2, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC – The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for all documents related to the Department’s…

  • VPC Praises Effort to Preserve the Brady Law

    For Release:  Thursday, July 26, 2001 Kennedy-Schumer 90-Day Retention Legislation Would Stop Erosion of Gun Policy by Ashcroft Justice Department  Washington, DC  The Violence Policy Center (VPC) applauded the introduction today of a bill sponsored by…

  • Just Plain Wrong: VPC Exposes Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter to NRA to Be Error-Ridden Fraud

    For Release:  Wednesday, July 25, 2001 Violence Policy Center Releases New Study Shot Full of Holes: Deconstructing John Ashcroft’s Second Amendment  WASHINGTON, DC  The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released Shot Full of Holes: Deconstructing John…

  • House Votes to Weaken the Brady Law

    For Release:  Wednesday, July 18, 2001 With Defeat of Moran 90-Day Retention Amendment Criminals Win Big  Washington, DC – The defeat today of Congressman Jim Moran’s (D-VA) amendment to the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary…

  • Violence Policy Center Endorses Schumer Proposal to Protect Brady Law From Being Gutted by Ashcroft Justice Department

    For Release:   Friday, June 29, 2001 Legislation Needed to Enable Law Enforcement to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Criminals  WASHINGTON, DC – Today the Violence Policy Center (VPC) endorsed a proposal by U.S. Senator Charles…

  • NRA Life Member John Ashcroft Announces Plan to Destroy National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Records

    For Release: Thursday, June 28, 2001 AG Chooses NRA Over FBI  NRA Wish-List Item Is Death Certificate For Brady Law  Washington, DC – The call today by Attorney General and National Rifle Association Life Member John…

  • U.S. Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge to Brady Law’s Retention of National Instant Check Records

    For Release:   Monday, June 25, 2001 Supreme Court Action Strengthens Recent Violence Policy Center (VPC) Lawsuit Against Attorney General Ashcroft Amended Complaint Filed Today  WASHINGTON, DC – Today the U.S. Supreme Court handed a major…

  • 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…

  • Ashcroft Pro-Gun Actions Turning Department of Justice Into NRA Franchise 

    For Release:  Wednesday, June 6, 2001 Letter to NRA on Second Amendment, Delay of NICS Regulation, Signal Dramatic Shift in DOJ Policy House Judiciary Committee Hearing Today on Ashcroft Activities Comes on Heels of Violence…

  • Violence Policy Center Sues Attorney General Ashcroft Over Unlawful Suspension of Brady Law Regulation – Further Evidence of Shift in Justice Department Gun Policy

    For Release:  Monday June 4, 2001 VPC Challenges Illegal Delay of Justice Department Rule to Prevent Abuse of Background Check System for Gun Sales  WASHINGTON, DC – In the first lawsuit challenging the Bush Administration’s unlawful rollback…

  • Ashcroft Letter to NRA Reveals Shift in Justice Department Policy, Undermines Enforcement of Gun Laws

    For Release: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 VPC Launches New Website, ashcroftgunwatch.org, Detailing Ashcroft’s Pro-Gun, Anti-Enforcement Activities WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has sent National Rifle Association (NRA) chief lobbyist James Jay Baker a letter…

  • Violence Policy Center Opposes McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill

    For Release:   Tuesday, May 15, 2001 Bill Undermines and Weakens Federal Brady Law  Washington, DC – The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released the following statement by Public Policy Director Joe Sudbay in opposition to…

  • Bush After-The-Fact, NRA-Backed Prosecution Strategy Does Nothing to Prevent Gun Death and Injury

    For Release:  Monday, May 14, 2001 Last year, the NRA promised that if George W. Bush won the election, they’d be operating out of the White House. Today’s announcement is just the latest proof that…

  • Violence Policy Center (VPC) Releases New Study, Hispanics and Firearms Violence

    For Release:  Tuesday, May 8, 2001 VPC Joined by Members of Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Leading Hispanic Organizations Washington, DC The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released Hispanics and Firearms Violence, a comprehensive overview of the effects…

  • Study Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation’s Top Lead Polluters

    For Release:  Tuesday, May 1, 2001 Shooting Ranges Exempt from Pollution Control Laws—Including President Bush’s Recent Lead Emissions Rule “Lead is a persistent and highly toxic substance that can cause a range of environmental and…

  • 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…

  • VPC Releases Where’d They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963 to 2001

    For Release:  Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Most Firearms Were Legally Acquired Washington, DC The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released Where’d They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile Shootings, 1963 to 2001,…

  • VPC Releases Latest Edition of Firearms Production in America

    For Release: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 Unique Resource of Gun Industry Production Data Washington, DC The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released the latest edition of Firearms Production in America which details gun production in the United States…