Concealed Carry Killers

The Violence Policy Center is a national tax-exempt educational organization focused on firearm violence prevention through research, investigation, analysis, and advocacy. Rather than a business offering firearms or training services, the VPC functions as a policy research organization providing information to policymakers, journalists, advocates, and the public.

The VPC maintains databases of incidents involving concealed handgun permit holders, including cases not ruled as self-defense. Their Rhode Island archive includes detailed case documentation with current legal status and outcomes.

Example case: Nicholas Gianquitti, a former Providence police officer with a concealed carry permit, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 after shooting his neighbor during a dispute over a child's tennis ball hitting his wife's car.

The organization produces:

• •State-by-state fatality information and case databases
• •Research publications on concealed carry permit systems
• •Analysis of criminal convictions among permit holders
• •Fact sheets on mass shootings and armed citizens
• •Policy briefs on concealed carry laws and violent crime

Notable publications include: - "Cash and Carry: How Concealed Carry Laws Drive Gun Industry Profits" - "License to Kill IV: More Guns, More Crime" - "Concealing the Risk: Real-World Effects of Lax Concealed Weapons Laws" - "Mass Shootings Involving Concealed Handgun Permit Holders"

Their work centers on documenting how concealed carry permit systems actually function in practice, analyzing research on the connection between permit laws and crime rates, and providing evidence-based information for policy discussions at state and federal levels.