Founded in 1983,
the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence is the legal action, research and education
affiliate of Handgun Control. The Center
builds bridges to law enforcement, educators, legal scholars, public health officials and
health care providers, uniting diverse experts in a search for solutions to the gun
violence epidemic.
Happy Holidays, Keep up the good work. Keep the
guns out of the hands of today's youth. -Analognet
 Since 1989, the Legal Action Project has made
sure gun violence victims have their day in court. LAP’s attorneys provide free legal
representation for victims in lawsuits against reckless gun manufacturers, dealers and
owners. The LAP now represents more than twenty cities and counties who are suing
the gun industry to force them to make and distribute their products more responsibly, and
is widely acknowledged as the most powerful legal adversary of the American gun industry. |
 More Americans are killed by firearms than by most well-known
diseases. Physicians and public health researchers have long considered gun violence
a public health epidemic -- the Center’s research and education programs search for a
cure. Those programs include: “Straight Talk About
Risks” (STAR) ,“Steps
to Prevent (STOP) Firearm Injury,” STOP 2, and Project Lifeline,
the Center’s nationwide public education campaign. |
 Working with law enforcement agencies across the United States, the
Law Enforcement
Relations department of the Center creates partnerships with the goal of reducing
gun-related crimes and injuries. |
 The Center’s Research
department provides ongoing
analysis of the public health data that shapes
these programs, as well as groundbreaking studies of crime data that demonstrate that gun
laws work. |
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