Media Contact: Avery Palmer, (202) 822-8200 x104, apalmer@vpc.org
- Violence Policy Center Statement on NRA CEO Wayne
LaPierre’s Press Conference Today (12/21/12)
- Florida
Teen Jordan Davis One of 499 Victims of “Concealed Carry Killers” since May 2007
(11/29/2012)
- Non-Self Defense
Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hit 484--VPC
Concealed Carry Killers October Update (11/09/2012)
- Gun
Deaths Outpace Motor Vehicle Deaths in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland,
Virginia) (10/10/2012)
- Non-Self
Defense Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hit
471--VPC Concealed Carry Killers September Update ((09/27/12)
- Nevada
Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men for Third Year in a Row According to
VPC Study Released Annually for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/19/2012)
- Black Women Murdered by Men are
Most Often Killed with a Gun, Almost Always by Someone They Know, According to
New VPC Study Released Each Year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (09/19/2012)
- Violence
Policy Center Statement on Shooting Outside Empire State Building (08/24/2012)
- Violence Policy Center Statement on Shooting
at Sikh Temple Leaving Six Dead, Others Critically Wounded (08/06/2012)
- New
VPC Report Details Marketing and Production History of Assault Rifle Used in Aurora,
CO, the Smith & Wesson M&P15, Describes How It and Other Assault Rifles Differ
from Sporting Semiautomatic Rifles (07/26/2012)
- National
Rifle Association-Backed Law Made Possible Internet Ammunition Sales Reportedly
Exploited by Colorado Shooter and Removed Recordkeeping Requirements, NRA Reaps
Profits From Such Sales Today (07/23/2012)
- VPC
and Over 30 Gun Violence Prevention Groups Issue Statement on Colorado Mass Shooting
(07/20/2012)
- New VPC
On-Line Resource--Cross-Border Gun Trafficking--Uses Federal Court Documents to
Detail Types of Firearms Favored, Methods Used, by Illegal Trans-Border Gun Traffickers
(07/11/2012)
- Non-Self Defense
Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hit 462--VPC
Concealed Carry Killers June Update (06/29/2012)
- Non-Self
Defense Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hit
447--VPC Concealed Carry Killers May Update (05/31/2012)
- Gun
Deaths Outpace Motor Vehicle Deaths in 10 States in 2009 New Analysis Shows (05/22/2012)
- More
Than 1,300 Murder-Suicide Deaths Occurred in 2011, New Study Estimates (05/03/2012)
- Michigan
Reports 38 Deaths, Including the Murder of a Law Enforcement Officer--VPC Concealed
Carry Killers April Update (05/01/2012)
- Vast
Majority of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S. New ATF Trace Data Reveals (04/26/2012)
- Massachusetts
Has Lowest Gun Death Rate in Nation (04/23/2012)
- NRA
Annual Meeting This Weekend in St. Louis, MO--State Ranked #1 for Black Homicide
Victimization (04/11/2012)
- New
VPC Study Details How Lax Concealed Carry Laws Are Designed to Boost Gun Sales
(04/02/2012)
- Unarmed Teen Trayvon
Martin One of More Than 400 Victims of “Concealed Carry Killers” since May 2007
(03/22/2012)
- Non-Self
Defense Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hit
391--VPC Concealed Carry Killers February Update (02/16/2012)
- Missouri
Leads Nation in Black Homicide Victimization for Second Year in a Row (01/25/2012)
- Monterey
County Ranks #1 for Youth Homicide Victimization in California for Second Year
in a Row, New Study Reveals (01/10/2012)
- As
Anniversary of Mass Shooting in Tucson that Killed Six and Injured 13--including
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords--Approaches, New Analysis Shows the Number
of Americans Shot Each Year is Rising (01/06/2012)
- U.S.
House of Representatives Votes to Expand and Nationalize the Carrying of Concealed
Handguns Three Days After a Concealed Permit Holder Fires at California Highway
Patrol Officers (11/16/2011)
- As
House Judiciary Committee Approves Bill to Expand and Nationalize the Carrying
of Concealed Handguns, Permit Holders Continue to Kill Innocent Victims, Including
11 Law Enforcement Officers (10/25/2011)
- States
With Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (10/24/2011)
- Nevada
Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men for Second Year in a Row According to
VPC Study Released Annually for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/20/2011)
- Black
Women Murdered by Men are Most Often Killed with a Gun, Almost Always by Someone
They Know, According to New VPC Study Released Each Year for Domestic Violence
Awareness Month (09/20/2011)
- As
Congress Begins Action on Legislation to Expand and Nationalize the Carrying of
Concealed Handguns, Permit Holders Continue to Kill Innocent Victims in Mass Shootings,
Murder-Suicides, Arguments, Accidents (09/09/2011)
- Non-Self
Defense Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hits
370--VPC Concealed Carry Killers July/August Update (08/10/2011)
- Violence
Policy Center Endorses “Stop Gun Trafficking Act of 2011” (07/15/2011)
- Arizona Mass Shooter, Conviction of
Concealed Carry Cop-Killer, Among the June Additions and Updates to VPC's Concealed
Carry Killers (07/05/2011)
- U.S.
Civilian Gun Market Has Become a Militarized Bazaar, New Violence Policy Center
Study Documents (06/14/2011)
- Gun
Violence Prevention Organizations Call on President Obama to Act to Prevent Terrorist
Attacks with Guns in Wake of New Al Qaeda Video Urging Supporters to Exploit Weak
U.S. Gun Laws (06/07/2011)
- Toddler
Alleged to Have Accidently Killed His Mother with Father's Permitted Glock Among
the May Additions to VPC's Concealed Carry Killers (05/31/2011)
- Analysis
Details 300 People--Including 11 Law Enforcement Officers--Killed Since May 2007
by Persons Allowed to Legally Carry Concealed Handguns as Wisconsin Legislature
Holds Hearings on Allowing Concealed Loaded Handguns in Public (05/12/2011)
- Killings by Persons Allowed to Legally
Carry Concealed Handguns Reach 300—VPC Concealed Carry Killers April Update (04/27/2011)
- Household Gun Ownership Hits New Low--Fewer
Than One Out of Three American Households Has a Gun (04/26/2011)
- National Rifle Association Receives Millions
of Dollars From Gun Industry "Corporate Partners" New VPC Report Reveals (04/13/2011)
- New Violence Policy Center Analysis
Details Nearly 300 People, Including 11 Law Enforcement Officers, Killed Since
May 2007 by Persons Allowed to Legally Carry Concealed Handguns as New Grassroots
Effort to Stop Concealed Carry in Illinois Kicks Off (03/29/2011)
- Virginia Sheriffs Slain and Wounded in Sniper
Attack Were Shot by Concealed Handgun Permit Holder (03/15/2011)
- Attack on Rep. Giffords, Others in Tucson
Most Recent Mass Shooting Involving Legal Concealed Weapons Holder, VPC Concealed
Carry Killers February Update (02/11/2011)
- Monterey
County Ranks #1 for Youth Homicide Victimization in California, New Study Reveals
(01/31/2011)
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- Missouri
Leads Nation in Black Homicide Victimization (01/26/2011)
- NRA
and Some of Its Board Members Have Direct Financial Interests in Stopping Ban
on High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines (01/18/2011)
- Violence
Policy Center Strongly Backs Ban on High-Capacity Magazines (01/18/2011)
- SHOT Show an Example
of a Politically Powerful Industry Desperate to Hide Its Decline (01/13/2011)
- High-Capacity
Ammunition Magazines: The Common Thread That Runs Through Mass Shootings (01/11/2011)
- Semiautomatic Pistol
Used in Arizona Shooting Is Same Model Handgun Used in Virginia Tech Shooting
(01/10/2011)
2010
- Murder, Suicide, and More
Convictions: VPC Concealed Carry Killers December Update (12/22/2010)
- Michigan Concealed
Handgun Licensees Have Suicide Rate Higher Than General Michigan Population--VPC
Concealed Carry Killers November Update (11/30/2010)
- Connecticut
Beer Truck Driver Who Killed 8 Then Self in August Was a Concealed Handgun Permit
Holder--VPC Concealed Carry Killers October Update (10/30/2010)
- Killings by Concealed
Handgun Permit Holders Top 200, One-Third of Incidents Involved Family Violence--VPC
Concealed Carry Killers September Update (09/30/2010)
- Nevada
Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men According to VPC Study Released Annually
for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/15/2010)
- Concealed Handgun Permit Holders
Fatally Shoot Each Other During Argument: VPC Concealed Carry Killers August Update
(08/30/2010)
- Pistol
Used in Manchester Mass Shooting Part of “Handgun of the Year” Award Winning SR9
Product Line (08/06/2010)
- House
Expected to Vote on Bill to Protect Guns From Claims of Creditors in Bankruptcy
Cases (07/26/2010)
- More
Deaths, More Convictions, More Murder-Suicides: VPC Concealed Carry Killers July
Update (07/23/2010)
- National
State-by-State Study of Drive-By Shootings Reveals Data on Victims, Time, Location
(07/21/2010)
- Another
Mass Shooting, More Convictions, and Other Innocent Victims Murdered by Concealed
Handgun Permit Holders: VPC Concealed Carry Killers June Update (06/30/2010)
- Violence Policy
Center Statement on McDonald v. Chicago Decision (06/28/2010)
- Hialeah Mass Shooting Only
Most Recent by a Concealed Handgun Permit Holder (06/11/2010)
- States with Higher Gun
Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (06/02/2010)
- Murder Arrests, Murder-Suicide
Among New Concealed Handgun Permit Holder Incidents Reported in VPC’s “Concealed
Carry Killers” May Update (05/27/2010)
- National
Rifle Association--Embracing Tea Partiers and Anti-Government Rhetoric--Meets
in Charlotte, NC (05/12/2010)
- Concealed
Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 161 Since May 2007, Including 9 Law
Enforcement Officers—“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site April Update (04/28/2010)
- NRA Once Again
Embracing Anti-Government Rhetoric (04/15/2010)
- Concealed
Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 151 Since May 2007, Including 9 Law
Enforcement Officers—“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site March Update (03/24/2010)
- Police Are Involved in
More Than One Out of Four Assault Weapons Incidents, Violence Policy Center Study
Shows (02/24/2010)
- Concealed
Handgun Permit Holders Have Killed 139 Since May 2007, Including 9 Law Enforcement
Officers—“Concealed Carry Killers” Web Site February Update (02/19/2010)
- Pennsylvania Leads
Nation in Per Capita Rate of Black Homicide Victimization (01/26/2010)
- Appomattox,
VA, Attack Only Most Recent Mass Shooting Involving a Concealed Handgun Permit
Holder (01/20/2010)
- 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 (01/12/2010)
- As CA Assembly Committee
Considers Concealed Handgun Bill, On-Line Resource Reveals That Concealed Handgun
Permit Holders Have Killed at Least 9 Law Enforcement Officers, 108 Private Citizens
Since May 2007 (01/12/2010)
2009
- 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
- Gun
Violence Prevention Organizations Call on President Obama to Use Executive Authority
to Ban Import of Armor-Piercing Pistol Used in Fort Hood Attack (11/19/2009)
- 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 (11/17/2009)
- Fort
Hood Mass Shooting, Leaving 13 Dead and 28 Injured, Latest Example of Price Paid
for Deadly Firepower Available to Americans (11/06/2009)
- Louisiana
Ranks #1 in Rate of Women Murdered by Men According to VPC Study Released Annually
for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October (09/22/2009)
- Pittsburgh Fitness Center
Attack Only Most Recent Mass Shooting Committed by Concealed Handgun Permit Holder
(08/06/2009)
- Violence
Policy Center Statement on Defeat of Thune Amendment Creating National Concealed
Handgun System (07/22/2009)
- Concealed
Handgun Permit Holders Kill 7 Police, 44 Private Citizens Over Two-Year Period
(07/20/2009)
- National
Gun Violence Prevention Groups Express Outrage That in Wake of Shootings, U.S.
Senate is Poised to Consider Legislation to Dramatically Weaken State Concealed
Handgun Laws (07/13/2009)
- Over
90 Percent of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S., New GAO Report Finds (06/18/2009)
- NRA Holds Annual Meeting
in State Ranked #6 in Overall Gun Death, in City Where Gun Dealers Help Feed U.S.-Mexico
Border Violence (05/15/2009)
- States
with Higher Gun Ownership and Weak Gun Laws Lead Nation in Gun Death (05/06/2009)
- Mexican Gun
Traffickers Easily Obtain Military-Style Weapons from U.S. Civilian Gun Market,
New Analysis of Federal Criminal Court Records Confirms (04/15/2009)
- Report Urges
President to Use Existing Law to Cut Off Flow of Military-Style Guns to Mexico
(03/31/2009)
- U.S.
Can Act Immediately to Halt Import of AK-47 Assault Rifles Fueling Gun Violence
on U.S./Mexico Border, VPC Tells Congress (03/18/2009)
- U.S.
Gun Industry Feeds Gun Violence on U.S./Mexico Border, Violence Policy Center
Analyst Tells Congress (03/12/2009)
- National
Gun Violence Prevention Organizations Call for Effective Federal Assault Weapons
Ban in Wake of Alabama Rampage Shooting Leaving 11 Dead, Including Shooter (03/11/2009)
- New Study Shows
Need for Improved Data on Youth Gang Violence and Guns in California (02/26/2009)
- Pennsylvania
Leads Nation in Per Capita Rate of Black Homicide Victimization (01/26/2009)
2008 2007 2006 2005
- Violence Policy Center Backgrounder
on Gun Crime, Gun Possession, and Gun Exposure in Tennessee (11/09/2005)
- Violence Policy Center
Hails Passage of San Francisco Handgun Ban (11/09/2005)
- Supreme
Court Nominee Samuel Alito’s Views Could Imperil Most Federal Gun, Ammo, and Explosives
Laws, New Violence Policy Center Backgrounder Shows (11/02/2005)
- Violence Policy Center
(VPC) Statement on U.S. House Passage of Bill Protecting the Unregulated Gun Industry
(10/20/2005)
- Violence
Policy Center Urges Washington Redskins to Withdraw From Shooting Fundraiser With
National Rifle Association as NRA Lobbies on Capitol Hill to Overturn D.C.'s Gun
Laws (10/11/2005)
- Violence
Policy Center Issues Annual Report When Men Murder Women (09/26/2005)
- U.S. House
Passes Measure to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Sex Offenders (09/14/2005)
- Violence
Policy Center (VPC) Statement on Senate Passage of Gun Liability Bill (07/29/2005)
- Violence
Policy Center (VPC) Response to National Rifle Association Charges That VPC Misrepresented
Beretta as a Foreign Gunmaker (07/26/2005)
- Senate
Majority Leader Frist Says American Gun Companies at Risk if Congress Doesn't
Pass Bill to Shield the Gun Industry from Lawsuits—But Cites Italian Gunmaker
Beretta as Example (07/25/2005)
- National
Security Experts Confirm Terror Threat Posed by 50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles
(07/19/2005)
- Columbus,
Ohio, Assault Weapons Ban Greater Tragedy to NRA Than Columbine Massacre, NRA's
Wayne LaPierre Reveals (07/18/2005)
- House
Judiciary Committee Rejects Amendments to Patriot Act to Keep Guns--Including
50 Caliber Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles--Out of the Hands of Terrorists (07/13/2005)
- New Study Shows District
of Columbia's Tough Gun Laws Work to Prevent Youth Suicide--No Child 16 Years
of Age or Younger in DC Was the Victim of Firearm Suicide According to Most Recent
Federal Data (07/12/2005)
- Congress
Should Reject Dangerous Legislation (H.R. 1288) Repealing the District of Columbia's
Longstanding Laws Banning Assault Weapons and Handguns (06/28/2005)
- Violence Policy Center
Launches Web Site to Aid Citywide Effort to Stop Congressional Repeal of DC Handgun
Ban (06/16/2005)
- Violence
Policy Center Hails New York State Assembly's Passage of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
Ban (05/25/2005)
- Riverside
Mass Shooting Fits Tragic Pattern Identified by Violence Policy Center in Largest
Study of Murder-Suicide Ever Conducted (05/11/2005)
- Despite
Mass Shooting in Wisconsin Leaving Eight Dead and Four Injured, Congressional
Panel Plans Hearing Tomorrow on Bill to Shield Gun Industry from Civil Liability
(03/14/2005)
- House-Passed
Class Action Bill (S.5) Protects Gun Industry, Leaves Gun Consumers And Victims
of Gun Violence in Legal Limbo (02/17/2005)
- Senate
Class Action Bill (S. 5) Protects Gun Industry And Leaves Gun Consumers And Victims
of Gun Violence in Legal Limbo (02/09/2005)
- VPC
Joins Representatives Moran, Kennedy, and McCarthy in Calling for Federal Ban
on 50 Caliber Anti-armor Sniper Rifles (02/08/2005)
- SKS
Assault Rifle Reported as Weapon Used in Ambush Attack on Police in Ceres, CA,
Leaving One Officer Dead And One Critically Wounded (01/11/2005)
2004
- Wisconsin Hunter Murders
Show Need For Effective Assault Weapons Ban—Armed Hunters No Match For SKS Assault
Rifle (11/22/2004)
- VPC
Applauds Introduction of Federal Legislation to Permanently Eliminate NRA-Backed
Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (10/08/2004)
- VPC Statement on U.S.
House Vote to Repeal DC Gun Laws (09/29/2004)
- VPC Releases Annual
Report When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2002 Homicide Data (09/28/2004)
- Congress Poised
to Vote on National Rifle Association-Backed Bill to Repeal DC Gun Laws (09/20/2004)
- California
Leads Nation in War on Terror—Becomes First State in Nation to Ban 50 Caliber
Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (09/14/2004)
- Violence
Policy Center Issues Statement on Expiration of Federal Assault Weapons Ban -
Press Release (09/13/2004)
- Arizona,
Nevada, and Utah Comprise the "UZI Triangle" of Copycat Assault Weapon Manufacturers,
According to Violence Policy Center (08/25/2004)
- Violence
Policy Center Joins Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Calling For Federal Ban on 50 Caliber
Anti-Armor Sniper Rifles (08/18/2004)
- More
Than 50 Members of Entertainment Community Sign Letter Calling on President Bush,
U.S. Congress, to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (07/21/2004)
- New Study Reveals
More Than 40 Gunmakers Currently Marketing Assault Weapons—Including UZIs, AK-47s,
AR-15s, MAC-10s, Galils, MP5s, and Others—Despite 1994 Federal Ban (07/20/2004)
- VPC Applauds Introduction
of Federal Legislation to Permanently Eliminate NRA-backed Federal Guns-for-Felons
Program (07/01/2004)
- U.S.
House Appropriations Committee Inserts Pro-Gun Language in Spending Bill in Effort
to Torpedo New York City Lawsuit Against Firearms Industry (06/23/2004)
-
SKS Assault Rifles–A Menace to Law Enforcement (pdf format) (06/18/2004)
- Violence Policy
Center Offers Strong Support For New York State Legislation to Ban 50 Caliber
Sniper Rifles (06/15/2004)
- Violence
Policy Center Warns Nation's Law Enforcement Officers of New Handgun Threat to
Police Body Armor (06/02/2004)
- New
Assault Weapon Manufacturer—Vulcan Armament—Brags "The Guns of the Special Forces
Are Now on Sale in America!" (05/19/2004)
- VPC
Offers Strong Support for Federal Legislation to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles
(05/03/2004)
- Revelation
That Romanian AK-47s Seized by Italian Authorities Are Legal Proves Need to Strengthen,
Not Just Renew, Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/29/2004)
- Five
Years After Columbine Shooting, Assault Weapons Continue to Threaten Public Safety,
Illustrating Need to Strengthen and Renew Federal Assault Weapons Ban (04/19/2004)
- Federal District
Court Strongly Rejects CATO Institute-Backed Challenge to Washington, DC Handgun
Ban (03/31/2004)
- Violence
Policy Center Hails Contra Costa, CA, Board of Supervisors' 4-0 Vote to Ban 50
Caliber Sniper Rifles (03/24/2004)
- Violence
Policy Center Hails New York State Assembly's Passage of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle
Ban (03/16/2004)
- Violence
Policy Center Rebuts "Top Ten Lies" of Fifty Caliber Institute (FCI) (03/16/2004)
- Only
Six Months Before Federal Assault Weapons Ban Expires (03/12/2004)
- Illinois
Has More Assault Weapon Manufacturers Than Any Other State, New Study Shows (03/03/2004)
- Violence
Policy Center Hails Senate Defeat of Immunity Bill, Urges Congress to Focus on
Passing Effective Assault Weapons Legislation (03/02/2004)
- Senate-Passed Assault Weapons
"Ban" Will Do Little to Keep Assault Weapons Off Our Streets, Violence Policy
Center (VPC) Warns (03/02/2004)
- National
Rifle Association-Backed Amendment to Gun Industry Immunity Bill Would Repeal
28-Year-Old District of Columbia Handgun Ban (03/01/2004)
- VPC Applauds U.S. Senate's
Rejection of Omnibus Spending Conference Report Loaded with Provisions That Would
Arm Criminals, Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers (01/20/2004)
- Federal
District Court Strongly Rejects National Rifle Association Second Amendment Challenge
to Washington, DC Handgun Ban (01/15/2004)
2003 2002
- In Unanimous Ruling, U.S.
Supreme Court Shuts Door on NRA-Backed Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (12/10/2002)
- Federal Court Upholds
California Assault Weapons Ban, Strongly Rebuts Ashcroft Justice Department View
That Second Amendment Guarantees an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms (12/05/2002)
- Statement
of Violence Policy Center in Response To Florida Jury Verdict Against Gun Distributor
(11/15/2002)
- Gun
Used by Washington, DC-Area Sniper Illustrates Need to Strengthen and Renew Federal
Assault Weapons Ban (10/28/2002)
- U.S.
Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Federal Guns-For-Felons Case (10/16/2002)
- VPC Assails Gun Industry
Pandering to Sniper Subculture, Calls For Condemnation, Investigation, And Legislation
to Stop Deadly Trade (10/10/2002)
- Snipers—Predictable
Consequence of Gun Industry Marketing (10/08/2002)
- Violence
Policy Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2000 Homicide
Data (10/02/2002)
- H.R.
2037 Gives Special Protection to the Unregulated Gun Industry (09/25/2002)
- VPC Releases New Study
No Deal: The Drop in Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers in America (09/25/2002)
- Los Angeles First City
in Nation to Vote to Ban 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (09/24/2002)
- Violence Policy Center
Condemns Bush Administration Decision to Arm Pilots (09/05/2002)
- CIA Letter Raises Further
Doubts About Barrett Story on Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles to Bin Laden (08/06/2002)
- Fort
Bragg Tragedies Focus Attention on National Plague of Murder-Suicide (08/05/2002)
- Attorney
General Ashcroft Misled Congress and the American People on Legality of Checking
Terrorist Gun Purchase Records (07/24/2002)
- VPC
Denounces Passage of "Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act"—Urges Senate Not To
Make the Same Mistake (07/11/2002)
- VPC
Statement Opposing "Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act" (07/10/2002)
- Fact Sheet on the Los Angeles International
Airport Shooting and Statistics on Firearms Violence in California (07/08/2002)
- Statement of Violence
Policy Center in Response to GAO Report: "Less Time Means More Domestic Gun Crime"
(06/26/2002)
- VPC
Releases License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime (06/12/2002)
- Statement of
Violence Policy Center in Response to Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Second Amendment
Cases (06/10/2002)
- Statement
of Violence Policy Center in Response to D.C. Gun Crime Defendants Using U.S.
Department of Justice Second Amendment Policy Shift to Strike Down Gun Laws (05/30/2002)
- Ashcroft and NRA Provide
Second Amendment Gun Defense for Accused American Taliban Terrorist John Walker
Lindh (05/16/2002)
- U.S.
Gun Industry Targets Europe For Sale of 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (05/01/2002)
- VPC Releases Most
Comprehensive State-by-State Study Ever Conducted on National Tragedy of Murder-Suicide
(04/17/2002)
- Terminate
Federal Guns-for-Felons Program, Violence Policy Center Tells U.S. Supreme Court
(04/09/2002)
- VPC
Backgrounder on Guns and France in Wake of Mass Handgun Shooting in Nanterre,
France (03/28/2002)
- VPC
Launches New Web Site, www.banhandgunsnow.org, in Conjunction With Release
of Paperback Edition of Latest Book, Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case
for Banning Handguns (03/28/2002)
- New
Harvard University Study Shows Direct Link Between Gun Availability And Gun Death
Among Children (02/21/2002)
- Violence
Policy Center Response to Justice Department Proposal to Keep Guns Out of the
Hands of Prohibited Aliens (02/13/2002)
- New
VPC Report Debunks Gun Industry Claim That Bin Laden's 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles
Were Obtained Through CIA Aid Program (2/13/2002)
- VPC
Releases John Ashcroft: Year One (01/31/2002)
- VPC
Releases The State of the Gun Industry in Response to Nation's Largest
Gun Trade Show Being Held in Las Vegas February 2-5, 2002
- U.S. Supreme Court Decides
Today to Hear Case That Could Terminate Federal Guns-for-Felons Program (01/22/2002)
2001
- Gunmakers Urge That Children
as Young as Four Years Old Get "A .22 For Christmas," New VPC Report
Reveals (12/18/2001)
- Indiana
Factory Shooting Highlights Need For Improved Oversight of Kitchen-Table Gun Dealers
(12/07/2001)
- Ashcroft
Justice Department Protects Terrorist "Gun Rights" While Putting Americans
at Risk (12/06/2001)
- Nearly
One Third of Kids Murdered With Handguns Are Shot And Killed by Other Kids, VPC
Study Finds (11/28/2001)
- Jihad
Trainees Urged to Use Lax U.S. Gun Laws to Wage Holy War (11/21/2001)
- Pro-Gun Experts
Prove Handguns Are Ineffective Self-Defense Tools, New VPC Study Reveals (11/19/2001)
- Violence Policy Center
Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; African-American
Women Three Times More Likely to be Murdered Than White Women (10/30/2001)
- Violence Policy
Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data; Hispanic
Women Suffer From a Higher Female Homicide Rate Than the National Average (10/30/2001)
- Violence Policy
Center Releases When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 1999 Homicide Data (10/17/2001)
- Violence
Policy Center Applauds Emerson Decision, Court Upholds Protective Order Gun Ban
(10/16/2001)
- U.S.
Gun Industry Armed Osama bin Laden's Terror Network: Al Qaeda Bought 25 Barrett
50 Caliber Sniper Rifles (10/07/2001)
- Even
The Safest City in America Cannot Escape Handgun Violence (09/06/2001)
- VPC
Submits Comments on Ashcroft Background Check Proposal—Urges FBI to Reject Ashcroft's
Dangerous Proposed Rule (09/05/2001)
- No
Recess for Ashcroft Hypocrisy—DOJ Continues to Undermine its Own Case in Emerson
(08/09/2001)
- Ashcroft
Decision Cloaked in Secrecy— VPC Files Freedom of Information Act Request on Ashcroft
Second Amendment Letter (08/02/2001)
- VPC
Praises Effort to Preserve the Brady Law (07/26/2001)
- Just
Plain Wrong—VPC Exposes Ashcroft Second Amendment Letter to NRA to Be Error-Ridden
Fraud (07/25/2001)
- House
Votes to Weaken Brady Law (07/18/2001)
- VPC
Endorses Schumer Proposal to Protect Brady Law From Being Gutted by Ashcroft Justice
Department (06/29/2001)
- NRA
Life Member John Ashcroft Announces Plan to Destroy National Instant Criminal
Background Check System (NICS) Records (06/28/2001)
- U.S.
Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge to Brady Law's Retention of National Instant
Check Records (06/25/2001)
- 50
Organizations Announce Opposition to McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (06/12/2001)
- Ashcroft Pro-Gun
Actions Turning Department of Justice Into NRA Franchise - (06/06/2001)
- Violence Policy
Center Sues Attorney General Ashcroft Over Unlawful Suspension of Brady Law Regulation—Further
Evidence of Shift in Justice Department Gun Policy (06/04/2001)
- Ashcroft Letter to
NRA Reveals Shift in Justice Department Policy, Undermines Enforcement of Gun
Laws (05/23/2001)
- Violence
Policy Center Opposes McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill (05/15/2001)
- Bush After-The-Fact,
NRA-Backed Prosecution Strategy Does Nothing to Prevent Gun Death and Injury (05/14/2001)
- Backgrounder
on the Manufacturer of the Gun Reportedly Used in the Alleged Shooting by Nathaniel
Brazill at Lake Worth Middle School in Lake Worth, Florida (05/10/2001)
- VPC Releases
New Study, Hispanics and Firearms Violence (05/08/2001)
- Centro
para Política sobre la Violencia emite nuevo estudio, Los hispanos y la violencia
con armas de fuego
- Study
Documents How Shooting Ranges Poison Children; One of the Nation's Top Lead Polluters
(05/01/2001)
- Statement
of M. Kristen Rand, Legislative Director, Violence Policy Center (04/18/2001)
- VPC Releases
Where'd They Get Their Guns? An Analysis of the Firearms Used in High-Profile
Shootings, 1963 to 2001 (04/18/2001)
- VPC
Releases Latest Edition of Firearms Production in America (04/10/2001)
- Bush Budget Provides
More Guns, Less Prevention (04/09/2001)
- In
Wake of Latest School Shooting, Bush Adminisration Officials Refuse to Take Action,
Deny Reality of Gun Violence in America (03/23/2001)
-
California Gun Laws and Firearm Violence
Statistics for California (03/22/2001)
- Santana
High School Shooting Latest Proof of Need For Handgun Ban - (03/05/2001)
- White House Shooting
Latest Proof of Need For Handgun Ban (02/07/2001)
- For
Every Time a Women Uses a Handgun to Kill in Self-Defense, 101 Women Die in Handgun
Murders, New VPC Report Finds (01/31/2001)
- Attorney
General Nominee Ashcroft Member of National Rifle Association (01/26/2001)
- Violence Policy Center
Releases Report Detailing Ashcroft Pro-Gun Record (01/09/2001)
- Violence
Policy Center Opposes Nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S. Attorney General (01/04/2001)
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