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Federal Tax Dollars Used To Fund School-Based Gun Industry Marketing Effort, New VPC Study Reveals
For Release: Tuesday, December 13, 1994 Federal tax dollars are being used to help underwrite a school-based marketing program designed to increase gun sales to children and young adults and bolster the political base of America’s…
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New VPC Study Exposes Gun Industry’s Marketing Tactics While Exploding Myths Concerning Women and Firearms Violence
For Release: Thursday, December 1, 1994 The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released Female Persuasion: A Study of How the Firearms Industry Markets to Women and the Reality of Women and Guns, a first-of-its-kind study detailing the…
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In Historic First, Saturday Night Special Manufacturer Tops U.S. Domestic Pistol Manufacturers
For Release: September 14, 1993 In an historic first, a Saturday Night Special manufacturer is the leading domestic pistol manufacturer in America according to 1991 production figures (the most recent available) obtained from the Bureau of…
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New Technology–Caseless “PHANTOM” Ammo–Could Devastate Police Investigations
For Release: Tuesday, July 6, 1993 New firearms ammunition technology soon to be imported to the United States could devastate police investigations according to the new Violence Policy Center study Phantom Ammo: The Advent of Caseless…
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New Study–More Gun Dealers Than Gas Stations–Documents Criminal Abuse of Federal Gun Dealer Licenses and Regulatory Failures of Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF)
For Release: Friday, December 11, 1992 New Study–More Gun Dealers Than Gas Stations–Documents Criminal Abuse of Federal Gun Dealer Licenses and Regulatory Failures of Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) Hundreds of thousands of…
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Violence Policy Center Study Spurs Legislation To End Federal Program To Rearm Convicted, Violent Felons
For Release: Thursday, February 27, 1992 As the result of a fall 1991 Violence Policy Center study documenting a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) program that allows convicted felons to regain their…