Publications

This major study reveals how the gun industry, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF, the trade association for the firearms industry), and the National Rifle Association are working to recruit children as young as grade-school…

This study offers detailed information on California homicide victims ages 10 to 24 and ranks each county in California by its homicide victimization rate for this age group. The offers information on sex, race, ethnicity,…

This report, a joint release with the Washington Office on Latin America, offers new data about imported firearms and cross-border gun trafficking. These data, drawn from U.S. indictments that involve gun trafficking to Mexico and…

Both AR-15 and AK-47 assault pistols are increasingly being marketed by the firearms industry. Both types use the same ammunition as that of their military-bred rifle counterparts. This report includes visual examples of AR-15 and…

In its publications, the NRA has presented a litany of supposed conspiracies being undertaken by federal agencies and targeting gun owners. At the same time, the NRA has once again raised the spectre of a…

The NRA’s annual meeting in Indianapolis will display the growing financial and institutional links between the organization and the gun industry, from gunmaker sponsorship of many of the meeting’s activities to a celebratory brunch honoring…

Freedom Group, one of the largest gun manufacturers in the world, specializes in assault rifles and other military-style firearms. The company made the Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle used at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Here is…

This report reveals that members of the gun industry have donated between $19.3 million and $60.2 million since 2005. And while the NRA claims on its website that it has no financial ties to the…

The gun used to kill Trayvon Martin didn’t find its way into George Zimmerman’s hands by happenstance. Like the killing itself, it is the predictable result of an aggressive decades-long campaign by the NRA to…

The concept behind the “smart” or “personalized” gun is to design and market a firearm which prevents anyone but an “authorized user” from firing it. Any discussion of these proposed weapons for the civilian marketplace…

Not since the late 1980s and early 1990s has there been such a wide variety of assault pistols available for sale on the U.S. civilian market. This study contains more than 20 examples of assault…

Colorado mass shooter James Holmes’ alleged use of a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semiautomatic AR-15-style assault rifle “demonstrates the clear and present danger of a gun designed for war and ruthlessly marketed for profit to…