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Vermont Senate Votes to Pass Gun Suicide Prevention Bill; Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Applaud 

H.230 Will Require Secure Storage of Firearms, Expand Eligible Petitioners for Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Create a 72-Hour Waiting Period for Firearm Transfers MONTPELIER, Vt. —The Vermont chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statement applauding the Vermont Senate for voting to pass H.230, legislation previously passed by the House that will prevent unauthorized access to guns by children and address Vermont’s gun suicide epidemic by reducing access to lethal means for people in crisis. The bill will return to the House to…

AG Kathy Jennings, Sen. Elizabeth Lockman, Rep. Cyndie Romer, Over 100 Delaware Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers, Everytown Call for Action on Gun Safety, Celebrate 10 Years of Life-Saving Work During Annual Advocacy Day

Gun Safety Advocates and Champions Rallied for Lawmakers to Require Permits to Purchase Handguns and Increase Police Transparency by Reforming Delaware’s Law-Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights  Moms Demand Action Volunteers Testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on SB2,  a Life-Saving Bill that Would Require a Permit to Purchase a Handgun  DOVER, Del. — Today, Delaware Moms Demand Action volunteers part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, alongside survivors of gun violence, and community partners gathered for their annual advocacy day to meet with lawmakers and advocate for gun safety measures to be passed during this legislative session…

VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: On Annual Advocacy Day and Following Tireless Advocacy From Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, Michigan House Passes Extreme Risk Law 

Vote Comes as Hundreds of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Gather in Lansing for Annual Advocacy Day, and Just Two Hours After Governor Whitmer Signed Historic Bills to Require Background Checks on All Unlicensed Gun Sales and the Secure Storage of Firearms LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statement today after the Michigan House lawmakers voted to pass legislation that would create an Extreme Risk law and allow for the temporary removal of firearms from people who…

Maryland Moms Demand Action Applauds General Assembly for Adjourning the 2023 Legislative Session Passing Bills to Strengthen Firearm Licensing Laws and Establish Sensitive Locations Where Gun Don’t Belong and “Jaelynns Law” to Strengthen Firearm Secure Storage Requirements 

Following hours of testifying and digital campaign efforts by Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, Maryland joins New York and New Jersey to address dangers created by the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen  Jaelynn’s Law is Named after Jaelynn Willey Who was Shot and Killed in 2018 at Greater Mills High School by a Shooter who Used their Parents Gun  The Maryland chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement applauding  the Maryland General…

VIDEO: Nashville Mayor John Cooper, Former U.S. Congresswoman Val Demings, Everytown, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Call on Tennessee Lawmakers to Pass Extreme Risk Law to Prevent Future School Shootings 

Tennessee Gov. Lee and Lt. Gov Have Said They Would Support a Policy to Keep Guns out of the Hands of Those in Crisis Recording of Press Call is Available HERE.  NEW YORK – Today Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action held a virtual press conference with John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, Nashville Mayor John Cooper, Former U.S. Congresswoman and Orlando Chief of Police Val Demings, Angela Ferrell-Zabala, senior vice president for movement building with Everytown, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action leaders, Sari Kaufman, who survived the mass school shooting at…

Vermont House Votes to Pass Life-Saving Gun Suicide Prevention Bill; Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Applaud

H.230 Will Require Secure Storage of Firearms, Expand Eligible Petitioners for Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Create a 72-Hour Waiting Period for Firearm Transfers  The Vermont chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement applauding  the Vermont House of Representatives for voting to pass H.230, legislation that will prevent unauthorized access to guns by children and address Vermont’s gun suicide epidemic by reducing access to lethal means for people in crisis.  “Our communities are too familiar with the grief of one of our friends,…

More Than 1,000 Students and Educators, Led By Denver East High School Students Demand Action, Walkout and Rally Alongside Moms Demand Action Volunteers to Call for Action on Gun Safety

Day of Action Comes Days After Death of Denver East High School Student, Luis Gonzales Colorado Lawmakers are Considering Historic Package of Life-Saving Gun Legislation this Session Today, Colorado Students Demand Action and Moms Demand Action, both parts of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, led a day of mobilization in Denver to urge lawmakers to take immediate action on gun safety. Early this morning, the Denver East High School chapter of Students Demand Action led more than  1,000 Colorado students and educators in a walkout to call for immediate action on gun safety. This school year alone, the…

Following Advocacy from Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, Colorado Lawmakers Introduce Critical Gun Safety Package

Volunteers With the Colorado Chapter of Moms Demand Action and Gun Violence Survivors Stood with Colorado Lawmakers As They Introduced Four Gun Safety Bills Today DENVER, Colo. – Today, the Colorado chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statements applauding Colorado lawmakers for introducing a gun violence prevention legislative package. The package introduction comes following the 2022 year that saw at least 26 mass shootings across the country, including two in Colorado – one in Aurora in October, and another in Colorado Springs in…

Gun Sense Lawmakers, Gun Violence Survivors, Shannon Watts, and Over 200 Minnesota Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Call for Action on Gun Safety During Annual Advocacy Day, and Celebrate 10 Years of Life-Saving Work in St. Paul

St. Paul, Min. — Today, Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz, St. Paul Mayor Carter, State Senators Erin Maye Quade and Liz Boldon, Minnesota House Majority Leader Jamie Long, State Representatives Cedrick Frazier and Kaohly Vang Her, and over 200 Minneapolis Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, alongside Moms Demand Action founder, Shannon Watts, and Everytown for Gun Safety Senior Vice President of Movement Building, Angela Ferrell-Zabala, called for action on gun safety during their annual Advocacy Day in St. Paul. This year’s Advocacy Day coincides with the celebration of 10 years of Moms Demand Action’s life-saving work to…

VIDEO: Everytown, Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action to Double Down on Gun Safety in Statehouses in 2023 Following Electoral Victories for Gun Sense Candidates

Watch a recording of today’s press call HERE. NEW YORK – Today, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action held a press call with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, Minnesota Representative Dave Pinto, Illinois State Representative Maura Hirschauer, and Monisha Henley, Managing Director, State Government Affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety as 2023 state legislative sessions begin in states across the country following a resounding demand for gun safety by voters who elected gun sense champions – including former Moms Demand Action volunteers – up and down the ballot.  “Our volunteers are demanding a seat…

VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Following the Relentless Advocacy of Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Volunteers, Illinois Governor J.B Pritzker Signs Historic Gun Violence Prevention Package, the Protect Illinois Communities Act

Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Sent Over 10,000 Messaging, including by Email and Phone to Lawmakers, Testified at all Legislative Hearings, Traveled Hours to Urge Lawmakers to Pass Critical Legislation SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statements applauding Illinois Governor J.B Pritzker for signing into law the Protect Illinois Communities Act, a critical gun violence prevention legislative package.  “This lifesaving package will go a long way toward getting assault weapons and high-capacity magazines off the streets, keeping…

VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: With Votes Still Being Counted, Sixteen Moms Demand Action Volunteers Have Won Elections in Illinois So Far this Cycle

More than One Hundred Twenty-Five Newly Elected Volunteers Join Growing Ranks of Moms Demand Action Volunteers Elected to Office Since Its Founding in 2012, Part of 275+ Volunteers who Ran for Office This Cycle Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Made Over Six Million Voter Contacts to Support Gun Sense Candidates Across the Country SPRINGFIELD – So far, sixteen Illinois Moms Demand Action volunteers running for office up and down the ballot won in this week’s elections, highlighting the political power of Moms Demand Action volunteers as candidates for office themselves. These include Nabeela Syed, a Muslim, Indian…

VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Nine Moms Demand Action Volunteers Won Elections in Michigan, Flipping Statehouse to a Gun Sense Majority

First Gun Sense Lawmaking Trifecta in Decades Opens Door for Significant Action on Gun Safety Legislation  More than One Hundred Twenty-Five Newly Elected Volunteers Join Growing Ranks of Moms Demand Action Volunteers Elected to Office Since Its Founding in 2012, Part of 275+ Volunteers who Ran for Office This Cycle LANSING – Nine Michigan Moms Demand Action volunteers running for office up and down the ballot won in this week’s elections, highlighting the political power of Moms Demand Action volunteers as candidates for office themselves. These victories include the re-elections of former Moms Demand Action volunteers including Representative Brenda Carter…

VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Six Moms Demand Action Volunteers Win Elections in Minnesota, Flipping Statehouse to a Gun Sense Majority

More than One Hundred Twenty-Five Newly Elected Volunteers Join Growing Ranks of Moms Demand Action Volunteers Elected to Office Since Its Founding in 2012, Part of 275+ Volunteers who Ran for Office This Cycle Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Made Over Six Million Voter Contacts to Support Gun Sense Candidates Across the Country MINNEAPOLIS – Six Moms Demand Action volunteers from across Minnesota – all women – won election for office this week. Four of them were elected to the State Senate, flipping the chamber to provide a one-seat gun sense majority, and delivering a gun sense…

John Fetterman, Everytown-Supported Gun Sense Candidate, Wins in Pennsylvania

Everytown Victory Fund Supported Senator-elect Fetterman As Part of a $2.1 Million Investment in Pennsylvania this Election, Successfully Defeating Gun Lobby-Backed Mehmet Oz  Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Made Over Six Million Voter Contacts to Support Gun Sense Candidates Across the Country HARRISBURG, Pa. — Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, declared a major victory today as Pennsylvania voters rejected gun lobby-backed Mehmet Oz and elected John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate.  “In sending Senator-elect Fetterman to Congress, Pennsylvania…

NEW: Tying Together Guns and Abortion as a Winning Campaign Message

A new article in The Washington Post dives into a recent survey Everytown Victory Fund conducted with Schoen Cooperman Research of 4,800 voters across eight battleground states (Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin).  The survey reveals not only the strength of gun safety messaging in general, but how to link gun violence prevention and abortion rights under a frame of candidates who are putting our health and safety at risk. Combining these two issues is a highly effective messaging strategy, and results in a five to seven point increase of support for candidates who are…

New Politico Article Highlights Power of Gun Safety Messaging in Midterm Election

A new POLITICO article today highlighted the power that gun safety messaging can play in the midterm elections. After the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act earlier this year, the contrast between candidates who are on the side of public safety and those who are on the side of the gun lobby couldn’t be starker. In fact, as opponents try to highlight rising crime, gun safety champions have the opportunity to flip the frame and hammer their opponents on how opposing gun safety laws puts our communities and law enforcement at risk.  Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund…

VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Following Tireless Advocacy From Moms Demand Action And Students Demand Action, Governor Newsom Signs First-Of-Its-Kind Gun Safety Bill

The California chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety, released the following statements applauding California Governor Gavin Newsom for signing into law legislation to limit the spread of illegal guns and hold the gun industry accountable. SB 1327 creates a private right of action that would allow individuals to sue anyone who violates certain California firearm laws, including those who make or sell illegal assault weapons or ghost gun parts, and those who sell guns to underage buyers. Thousands of volunteers in California reached out to lawmakers in support of…

VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Following Tireless Advocacy from Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, Governor Newsom Signs Historic Bill to Hold Firearm Industry Accountable for Role in Gun Violence Crisis

The California chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety, released the following statement applauding California Governor Gavin Newsom for signing into law legislation to establish accountability for the firearm industry. AB 1594 holds bad actors in the firearm industry accountable by establishing a firearm industry standard of conduct, and authorizes victims of harm from firearms in California, the Attorney General, or city or county attorneys to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member for violating that standard. The code of conduct aims to prevent the sale of…

ABC News: ‘Ghost guns’ showing up in school shootings, experts fear trend will get worse

Today, ABC News published a piece highlighting a recent rash of school shootings using ghost guns, do- it-yourself, undetectable guns. In the last few months, there have been incidents of gunfire on school grounds in Arizona, New Mexico, Maryland, and Kansas done with ghost guns — highlighting a scary trend. Unsecured guns in the home are the source of guns used in three out of four shootings, but ghost guns are a rising trend due to the easy accessibility for teens and allow teenagers to have do-it-yourself weapons sent to their home with no…

ICYMI — Associated Press: Gun Lobby-Backed State Legislatures Roll Back Gun Laws Despite Law Enforcement Opposition, Risk to Public and Police Officers

In several states with gun lobby backed state legislatures and Republican majorities, lawmakers have passed laws to weaken gun safety laws — and they’ve done so in spite of aggressive, vocal opposition from local law enforcement who have raised the alarm about the danger that rolling back training and permitting requirements for carrying a concealed gun in public poses to the public and to police officers, according the Associated Press. “There is something of a disjunction between repeating the political slogan of ‘back the blue’ versus supporting policies that rank-and-file police and leaders of police organizations actually…

Forbes: How Shannon Watts Says You Can Be A Mom And Advocate During Coronavirus

“After Sandy Hook, I felt I had to do something,” Ms. Watts explained. “It’s gun violence that kills 100 Americans a day, Black and Latino Americans represent the majority of gun homicide victims, and in an average month, 53 American women are shot to death by a partner. I have watched this issue in this country for too long and incredulous that no one was doing anything. As Alice Walker once said, ‘Activism is my rent for living on the planet.’ Fighting for gun safety became my rent!” Read the full article here.

New York Times: Bloomberg’s Gun Control Group Pours $15 Million Into Races in 8 States

“No question about it, the N.R.A. has never been weaker,” Mr. Feinblatt said. “It’s fair to say they are going to be spending more money on legal fees than they are digital or TV ads this cycle.”…

Ohio Statehouse News Bureau: “Gun Control Group Opposes Bill That Cuts Training Requirements For Armed Teachers”

“Allowing school staff to carry firearms in school is dangerous. Allowing this to happen without extensive training and ongoing training is irresponsible,” Lane said.