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Bullet Buttons: The Gun Industry’s Attack on California’s Assault Weapons Ban
Catalogs and websites from America’s leading assault rifle manufacturers are full of newly designed “California compliant” assault weapons. Assault weapon manufacturers are introducing new rifles designed to circumvent California’s assault weapons ban and are actively…
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“Never Walk Alone” — How Concealed Carry Laws Boost Gun Industry Sales
Faced with a decades-long decline in household gun ownership, the firearms industry has worked to exploit NRA-backed laws to re-sell old customers and entice new ones. As Tanya Metaksa, then-chief lobbyist for the NRA told…
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More Guns, More Shootings
This analysis of fatal and non-fatal gunshot injuries showing that the total number of people shot in the United States each year has risen significantly from the beginning of the new century to 2008, the…
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VPC Backgrounder: The Ruger Mini-14 —The “Poor Man’s Assault Rifle”
This backgrounder provides information on the Ruger Mini-14 assault rifle, a weapon reportedly used in the attack in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik which killed 69 participants of a Workers’ Youth League (AUF) summer camp,…
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The Militarization of the U.S. Civilian Firearms Market
Selling militarized firearms to civilians has been at the point of the industry’s civilian design and marketing strategy since the 1980s. Today, militarized weapons—semiautomatic assault rifles, 50 caliber anti-armor sniper rifles, and armor-piercing handguns—define the…
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Accessories to Murder: High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines
This report provides numerous examples of the variety of high-capacity magazines the gun industry currently markets to its shrinking customer base.
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Drive-by America: Second Edition
This study, the most comprehensive analysis of its type, tallied news stories from the 50 states and the District of Columbia from July through December 2008 to identify data and trends associated with drive-by shootings,…
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Lessons Unlearned—The Gun Lobby and the Siren Song of Anti-Government Rhetoric
Fifteen years ago former National Rifle Association (NRA) member Timothy McVeigh–motivated by his fear and hatred of the federal government–bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Today, the NRA and other members…
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Target: Law Enforcement—Assault Weapons in the News
This study is a snapshot of the effect of America’s laissez-faire policy toward assault weapons. Based on reports of assault weapons in the news over a two-year span, it makes clear that assault weapons are…
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Indicted: Types of Firearms and Methods of Gun Trafficking from the United States to Mexico as Revealed in U.S. Court Documents
This report clearly demonstrates―by the make, model, caliber, manufacturer, and retail source of firearms seized in criminal trafficking cases―that the military-style semiautomatic firearms easily available on the U.S. civilian gun market are a significant component…
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Iron River: Gun Violence and Illegal Firearms Trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico Border
This comprehensive study examines how the U.S. civilian firearms market contributes to the ongoing drug-related violence in Mexico. The report urges immediate action under the federal 1968 Gun Control Act to cut off imports into…
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Youth Gang Violence and Guns: Data Collection in California
This study comprehensively reviews California databases containing gang and/or gun information. It examines the types of information being maintained; how it is collected; inconsistencies that may exist; and whether information currently available can help answer…