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  • 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…

  • VPC Hails Clinton’s Call to Regulate Gun Shows

    For Release: Monday,  November 9, 1998 “Tupperware Parties For Criminals” Evade Many Gun Laws Kristen Rand, author of the 1996 study Gun Shows in America: Tupperware Parties for Criminals and director of federal policy for the Violence…

  • Vast Majority of Handgun Makers Violate White House Trigger Lock Deal

     For Release:  Wednesday, October 14, 1998 New VPC Report Exposes Voluntary Agreement’s Failure A widely hailed voluntary agreement on trigger locks between the White House and the firearms industry has made virtually no difference in the…

  • New Study Shows Murders of Women Typically Involve Domestic Violence and Guns

    For Release:  Wednesday, September 30, 1998 Debunks “Stranger in the Alley” Myth Promoted by Gun Lobby Includes First State-by-State Ranking of Female Homicide Rates A new report from the Violence Policy Center, When Men Kill Women: An…

  • 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…

  • VPC Blasts President For Hosting Rose Garden Gun Event While Selling Out Gun Victims on Lawsuit Bill

    For Release: Wednesday, July 8, 1998 “Clinton Cares More About Photo Ops Than Real Solutions” The Violence Policy Center issued the following statement from VPC Director of Federal Policy Kristen Rand about President Clinton’s press conference…

  • Product Liability Bill Would Block Lawsuits Against Firearms Industry By Gun Victims

    For Release:  Tuesday, June 30, 1998 New VPC Report Exposes How Sweeping Bill Lets Gun Industry Off the Hook Including Makers of AK-47, TEC-9, Street Sweeper Amendment by Torricelli and Feinstein Only Hope to Preserve Strategy…

  • 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…

  • Second Amendment Rooted in Southern States’ Control of Slavery, Academic Experts Say

    For Release:  Thursday, May 14, 1998 Professors at Violence Policy Center Luncheon Explore “Hidden History” of Second Amendment A groundbreaking new historical analysis of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution exposes links between the…

  • 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…

  • VPC Releases Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped?

    For Release:  Tuesday, March 17, 1998 Study Analyzes Why ATF Has Failed to Stop Import of Assault Weapons and Raises Questions as to Whether Most Recent Effort Can Succeed Study Contains Criminal Tracing Data, Advertisements…

  • Texas Concealed Carry Permit is “License to Kill” New Violence Policy Center Study Reveals

    For Release:  Tuesday, January 13, 1998 Texas Concealed Handgun License Holders Arrested for Crimes That Include Murder, Kidnapping, Sexual Assault, Weapon, and Drug Charges Texas Concealed Handgun License Holders Arrested for Weapon Offenses at Rate More…

  • NRA, Gun Industry Attempting to Revise Assault Weapons History

     For Release: Tuesday, December 9, 1997 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…

  • New Violence Policy Center (VPC) Study Labels NRA’s Eddie Eagle “Gun Safety” Program “Joe Camel With Feathers”

    For Release: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 Study Details How NRA’s Effort to Hook Kids on Guns Follows Trail Blazed by Tobacco Industry Reveals for the First Time Gun and Tobacco Industry Funding of NRA Washington—In…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Semi-Annual VPC Report Who Dies? Details Latest Trends in Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in the U.S.

    For Release: Thursday, August 21, 1997 The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released Who Dies? An Overview of Firearms Injury and Death in America. The 24-page, semi-annual report offers a demographic breakdown of the latest trends…

  • Supreme Court Decision In Brady Case First Volley in Coming Battle Over National Waiting Period and Background Check for Handgun Buyers

    For Release: Friday, June 27, 1997 Today’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court that 1993’s Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act violates the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution foreshadows an inevitable debate in Congress over…

  • Soldier of Fortune Magazine Articles at McVeigh Trial Were Just Tip of Anti-Government Iceberg

    For Release: Wednesday, June 11, 1997 Gun Lobby Promoted “Final War” Against Federal Government National Rifle Association (NRA) Led Fight, Warning “Final War Has Begun” Soldier of Fortune Publisher Robert K. Brown Also Serves on NRA Board…

  • Representative Bob Barr (R-GA) to Offer Amendment to Put Guns Back Into the Hands of Wife Beaters and Child Abusers

    For Release: Monday, May 12, 1997 Measure That Would Gut 1996 Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban Expected to be Offered as Amendment to Fiscal 1997 Supplemental Appropriations Bill Barr Amendment Would Put Guns Back into the…