For Release: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 Only Eight States Report Women Using Handguns to Kill in Self-Defense in 1998 WASHINGTON, DC In 1998, for every time a women used a handgun in the United States to kill in self-defense,…
For Release: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 Only Eight States Report Women Using Handguns to Kill in Self-Defense in 1998 WASHINGTON, DC In 1998, for every time a women used a handgun in the United States to kill in self-defense,…
For Release: Thursday, December 14, 2000 Report Reveals Latest Effort by Gunmakers to Market Firearms to Children and Teens and Should be Warning to Unaware Holiday Shoppers WASHINGTON, DC The Violence Policy Center (VPC), joined by Representative Ed Markey (D-MA),…
For Release: Wednesday, December 6, 2000 Connecticut Leads Nation in Gun Production WASHINGTON The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released Firearms Production In America, 1975-1997: A State-by-State Breakdown. The 155-page study examines 22 years of federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms…
For Release: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 Tom Diaz, author of Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America and Senior Policy Analyst at the Violence Policy Center (VPC), testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today. Diaz revealed how the firearms industry…
For Release: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 The Violence Policy Center strongly supports the “Pocket Rocket Elimination Act of 2000.” The bill will be introduced today, July 18, 2000 by Representative Rod Blagojevich (D-IL). The legislation would deal with a deadly…
For Release: Monday, July 17, 2000 Study Explores How Gun Industry Increases Sales Through Increased Lethality Today, Monday, July 17, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) released Pocket Rockets: The Gun Industry’s Sale of Increased Killing Power. The 25-page study details how the gun…
For Release: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 LaPierre Scrambles on CBS News to Deny Racist Language National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has once again demonstrated the core values of the NRA’s leadership: hypocrisy and racism. As a…
For Release: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 Smith & Wesson has made public its interpretation of the “landmark” March 17, 2000 agreement between the handgun maker, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and some cities suing the gun industry. The document…
For Release: Friday, March 17, 2000 “The problem is not the guns….These people that they call children, in my mind, are little criminals and ought to be arrested.” Smith & Wesson President and CEO Ed Shultz, “Smith & Wesson Survives New…
For Release: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 New Survey Details Regional Gun Ownership Rates as Well as Attitudes on Handgun Ban, Safety Regulation of Gun Industry A new report from the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago details…