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Josh Sugarmann is the execuitve director of the Violence Policy Center (VPC), which advocates banning all handguns, .50 caliber rifles (and other "heavy sniper rifles," as the VPC calls large caliber scoped rifles), "intermediate sniper rifles" (the VPC's term for not-so-large caliber scoped rifles), so-called "assault weapons" (semi-automatic rifles and shotguns)--and undoubtedly others. The VPC's main function, as best I can determine, is to make the Brady Campaign look "moderate" (an appearance the Brady Campaign has sought, to the extent of changing their name, formerly Handgun Control, Inc., and radically softening their stated goals). While the Brady Campaign's success at...

Outrage of the Week! Friday, January 11, 2008 This week's outrage comes courtesy of columnist Bernd Debusmann of Reuters News Service, and an article he recently penned. This story, masquerading as a legitimate news article, might as well be an anti-gun organization's press release. Debusmann premises his piece on the argument that the American gun culture is "fading slowly," that gun ownership is declining, that support for stricter gun controls has been growing steadily, and that those in favor of stricter gun control laws represent a majority of the public. The source for this information is, not surprisingly, Josh Sugarmann...