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Target America

Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped?

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section One: The Debate Over Imported Assault Weapons

Section Two: Advertising and Catalog Photos

Section Three: Sporterized Assault Weapons Traced to Crime Scenes in the United States, 1995 and 1996


This is the text of the March 1998 Violence Policy Center study Target America: Can the Flood of Foreign Assault Weapons be Stopped?, minus the study's appendices of source documents cited in its text.

 

 


The Violence Policy Center is a national non-profit educational foundation that conducts research on violence in America and works to develop violence-reduction policies and proposals. The Center examines the role of firearms in America, conducts research on firearms violence, and explores new ways to decrease firearm-related death and injury.