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Online: Web Site Provides Information on Gun Control Issues

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
March 01, 2004

If you need to research gun control issues, check out The Violence Policy Center (VPC) at www.vpc.org. The VPC, based in Washington, DC, is a national nonprofit educational foundation that conducts research on violence in America and works to develop violence-reduction policies and proposals. The VPC examines the role of firearms in America, conducts research on firearms violence, and explores new ways to decrease firearm-related deaths and injuries. As a gun control think tank, the VPC analyzes a wide range of current firearm issues and provides information to policymakers, journalists, public health professionals, grassroots activists, and members of the general public.

Each year, the VPC releases between 15 and 20 fact-based studies on a full range of gun violence issues. The VPC works with national, state, and local advocacy organizations representing affected constituencies ' such as women, children, minorities, consumers, and public health practitioners ' to keep neighborhoods, homes, schools, and workplaces safe from gun violence.

The home page of the site contains links to the recent relevant news items, eg, a fact sheet on the Ominibus Spending Bill, which the VPC opposed on the grounds that it would enable criminals to obtain guns more easily; and a description of a recent federal district court case, Seegars v. Ashcroft, in which the court upheld a ban on handguns in Washington, DC. The judge rejected a challenge to the ban on Second Amendment grounds. There is a link to the decision and an amicus brief filed by the VCP.

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