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FEATURE STORIES Lawsuit Charges Ashcroft, ATF with Allowing Illegal Assault Weapons The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the Million Mom March filed a federal lawsuit charging Attorney General Ashcroft and the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) with violating the law by allowing gun manufacturers to make thousands of new illegal assault weapons. Uncovered documents show that after the passage of the assault weapons law, the government gave a green light to gun makers to make new assault weapons to replace "grandfathered" guns.
Senate Votes Down Immunity for Gun Industry A bipartisan coalition of United States Senators rejected NRA extremism and passed important gun safety provisions -- setting up the collapse of efforts to pass a bill that would have given unprecedented legal protection to the most reckless gun dealers in America. New Brady Center Study Shows Assault Weapons Ban Successful Despite Industry Efforts at Evasion As the Senate prepares to vote on an amendment that would renew the Federal Assault Weapons Act for another ten years, a new study 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. The report, "On Target: The Impact of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Act," is the first 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.
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