Assault Weapons and Accessories in America
Assault Weapon Look-Alikes: Airguns and Toy Guns
Paramilitary enthusiasm has not been limited to the firearms market. America’s manufacturers of non-powder firearms (such as BB guns and pellet guns) and toy guns have been quick to realize that assault weaponry is in. These manufacturers’ role models are…
Assault Weapons and Accessories in America
Assault Weapons Marketing
The marketing of assault weapons throughout this decade is in large part due to the slump in handgun sales that has afflicted the industry since 1982. Handgun production dropped from a high of 2.7 million that year to less than…
Assault Weapons and Accessories in America
Assault Weapons Violence
Assault Weapons Violence October 1984. San Jose, California police officer Joe Tamarett is shot and wounded with an UZI carbine.[3] January 1988. Virginia resident Michael Anthony Eberhardt is arrested in Washington, D.C., for allegedly purchasing 72 guns in Virginia during…
Assault Weapons and Accessories in America
Introduction
Across America, the firepower in the hands of gun owners of varying stripes is increasing dramatically. The reason: assault weapons. Drug traffickers are finding that assault weapons—in addition to ‘standard issue’ handguns—provide the extra firepower necessary to fight police and…
VPC Statement on Mass Shooting in Charleston, South Carolina
For Release: Thursday, June 18, 2015 Washington, DC — On June 17, a man opened fire at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people, in an incident that law enforcement are calling a hate crime. One…
House-Passed Amendment Would Restart “Guns for Felons” Program
For Release: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 Washington, DC — Tuesday night, the House passed several gun lobby-supported amendments to the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) appropriations bill including one that would allow convicted felons to obtain firearms following a petition to…
Firearms Training For Jihad in America
The Violence Policy Center (VPC) has obtained a copy of the document, How Can I Train Myself for Jihad. The six-page document—which has reportedly been found in terrorist safe houses in Kabul, Afghanistan—advises that “military training is an obligation in Islam…
New VPC Report Debunks Gun Industry Claim That Bin Laden’s 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles Were Obtained Through CIA Aid Program
For Release: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Rebuts Attempt to Shift Blame to CIA Interviews with Former CIA Officials, Corroborating Documents, Give Lie to Industry Red Herring Washington, DC The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released a study rebutting gun industry claims…
New Harvard University Study Shows Direct Link Between Gun Availability And Gun Death Among Children
For Release: Thursday, February 21, 2002 Most Comprehensive Study Ever Conducted on Impact of Gun Availability Sends Simple Message: IT’S THE GUNS, STUPID Louisiana Among Top Five in Nation in Gun Ownership – Louisiana Children More Likely to Die by…
Ashcroft and NRA Provide Second Amendment Gun Defense for Accused American Taliban Terrorist John Walker Lindh
For Release: Thursday, May 16, 2002 Washington, DC – One week after the Ashcroft Justice Department formally adopted the National Rifle Association (NRA) view that the Second Amendment guarantees a broad individual right to keep and bear arms, the defense…