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The Brady Campaign produces reports about current events and trends in gun policy and gun violence research.
Domestic Violence and Guns
Domestic violence and guns are a deadly combination. According to the FBI, thirty-three percent of women who are murdered with firearms are killed by an intimate partner.
Guns and Terror
As our nation conducts its war on terrorism - at home and abroad - one salient and unassailable fact is conspicuously absent from the national dialogue: terrorists and guns go together. The gun is part of the essential tool kit of domestic and foreign terrorists alike. Guns are used to commit terrorist acts, and guns are used by terrorists to resist law enforcement efforts at apprehension and arrest. The oft-seen file footage of Osama Bin Laden, aiming his AK-47 at an unknown target, is now a familiar reminder of the incontrovertible connection between terrorism and guns.
On Target: The Impact of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Act
This report shows a substantial drop in the use of high-firepower assault weapons like UZIs and AK-47s in crime, despite industry efforts to evade the statute. It is the first report to determine the extent to which the effectiveness of the assault weapon ban has been undercut by gun manufacturers' efforts to evade the ban by developing and selling "copycat" assault weapons.
Smoking Guns
Lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors, and dealers have created unprecedented new opportunities for intensive scrutiny of the gun industry and how it does business.
The Enforcement Fable
The National Rifle Association has attempted to divert national attention from the shameful weakness of our nation's gun laws by repeating, at every opportunity, the mantra: "We don't need more gun laws when the federal government refuses to enforce existing gun laws." Since the Columbine shooting and the ensuing national outcry, the gun lobby has spent millions of dollars telling the nation that enforcing existing gun laws is a workable substitute for new, common-sense regulation of firearms.
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