QUICK-CHANGE OPPORTUNISM AT THE VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: Reader Andrew Wharton writes:

Note that Violence Policy Center’s website has a new cover for their “Sniper” report. It no longer is using an “evil bolt-action” and has replaced the graphic with a stylized man holding an obvious AR-15. The tip-off is that the PDF file referenced has been renamed to “snipcov2.pdf” (Sniper, Cover two. Get it?). The other smoking gun is that the PDF has a date stamp of “10/24/02”. Pretty recent for a report that was supposedly published in 1999.

Heh. All I can say is: I told you so: “Prediction: Artificial hysteria over the ‘sniper culture’ will soon be redirected into hysteria over ‘assault weapons’ once a picture of the gun becomes widely available.”

UPDATE: Hmm. I followed the link and the properties are as described, dated 10/24/02, but I went to the Internet Wayback Machine and the cover shown there looks the same.