The National Rifle Association -- recognizing negative long-term trends in hunting and gun ownership -- is betting heavily on the participation of military personnel to sustain its future. Last year the organization unveiled its "Life of Duty" sponsored membership program.

A new study released today by my organization, the Violence Policy Center (VPC), ranks California counties by their youth homicide victimization rates. The annual study, Lost Youth, compares rates of homicide victimization for Californians ages 10 to 24 by county, race, ethnicity, weapon used, circumstance, and...

A new study released today by my organization, the Violence Policy Center (VPC), ranks California counties by their youth homicide victimization rates. The annual study, Lost Youth, compares rates of homicide victimization for Californians ages 10 to 24 by county, race, ethnicity, weapon used, circumstance, and...

For the second year in a row, and for the fourth time in the last five years, Nevada is first in the nation in the rate of women killed by men.

According to When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2009 Homicide Data, a report released each...

The attack in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik, apparently involving a Ruger Mini-14 assault rifle, is only the most horrific of the mass shootings involving the company's products.

Founded in 1949, the "corporate motto" of Sturm, Ruger & Co. is "Arms Makers for Responsible Citizens." But Sturm, Ruger...

As the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform prepares to focus Wednesday on alleged failures of the U.S. Justice Department's program to stop gun trafficking to Mexico, a new study by my organization, the Violence Policy Center (VPC)-- The Militarization of the U.S. Civilian...

If all goes as expected in Pittsburgh today, American Conservative Union President David Keene will be elected president of the National Rifle Association at the organization's board of directors meeting.

One person who presumably will not be attending the event is Keene's son, David Michael...

Household gun ownership has continued its decades-long decline, hitting a new low in 2010 according to new national survey data from the General Social Survey (GSS).

The GSS data is analyzed in a new Violence Policy Center report, A Shrinking Minority: The Continuing Decline of Gun...

The National Rifle Association (NRA) receives millions of dollars directly from domestic and foreign gun manufacturers and other members of the firearms industry through an organized corporate outreach program, according to a new report issued today by my organization, the Violence Policy Center.

In the latest evidence that despite the gun industry's essentially unchallenged chest thumping that things are going great, really great for firearm manufacturers, a giant dose of reality reared its ugly head last Friday when America's largest gun conglomerate, Freedom Group, canceled a long-delayed IPO (Initial Public Offering).

In the red-meat fulmination that is Wayne LaPierre's yearly appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (commonly known as CPAC, held here in Washington, DC, last week) the NRA chief is quick to clearly state what he hates, "clowns" (i.e., the news media, gun control advocates, and Members...

Board members of the National Rifle Association and its affiliated organization the NRA Foundation, as well as the NRA's lobbying division, have a financial interest in allowing the continued sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines like those used in the Arizona mass shooting according to a just-released investigation by...

High-capacity ammunition magazines are the common thread that runs through most mass shootings: giving attackers the ability to fire numerous bullets without reloading. Last week's attack in Arizona joins a long list of mass shootings made possible by the easy availability of high-capacity ammunition magazines: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Luby's, Stockton,...

So far few facts are known except the most horrifying: A Member of Congress is shot in the head while reaching out to her constituents and is rushed to surgery; six others are shot to death, including a judge and a nine-year old child; numerous others are injured.

America's gun...

Need a Dark Ops Vendetta Karambit Fighting Knife? Looking for a Punch Dagger "thrust-oriented personal defense tool"? A "Tactical Pen" that "will get the job done in more ways than one"? Or maybe just a Defensive Phone Holster with a "backup blade" to "ensure you'll never be completely unarmed."

Then...

Concealed handgun license holders in the Wolverine State commit suicide at a rate higher than the general Michigan population according to information analyzed by my organization, the Violence Policy Center, as part of our Concealed Carry Killers project, an on-line resource that tallies reports of killings...

When is a "combat rifle" for the U.S. civilian gun market too combat-y?

When it fires like a full-auto machine gun.

That's the problem Bushmaster now faces with its new Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR), an AR15-style assault rifle that...

Each year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October the Violence Policy Center releases its report When Men Murder Women. This VPC study, using the most recent data available from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report, details national and state-by-state information on female homicides involving...

Wisconsin, home to John Kerry's beloved "Lambert" Field, is also one of two states in America that bans the carrying of concealed weapons (the other is Illinois).

This week Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Jon M. Counsell issued an opinion overturning the state's ban on concealed carry...

Earlier this year, Florida concealed handgun permit holder Robert G.Webster and his wife were returning home from a visit to the doctor when he got into a confrontation with neighbor and fellow concealed handgun permit holder Charles E. Ingram, 57. According to witnesses, as the argument escalated Webster, 63, walked...