VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Senate Flips to Gun Safety Majority 

WASHINGTON — Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, declared a major victory today as voters flipped the U.S. Senate to a gun safety majority, following the election of Moms Demand Action volunteer Annie Andrews as the next Senator from South Carolina — the first former volunteer elected to the Senate. 

“In electing gun safety majorities to both chambers of Congress, voters just made it clear they’re looking for leaders whose top priority will be protecting their families’ economic and personal security — not the gun lobby’s bottom line,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “Everytown looks forward to working with the new Senate majority, including former Moms Demand Action volunteer Dr. Annie Andrews, to put public safety first and hold the Trump administration accountable for its efforts to dismantle or simply ignore decades of bipartisan federal gun laws.”

“Every gun safety win this fall, up and down the ballot, was powered by volunteers who refused to sit this election out,” said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. “Now there’s a Senate ready to stand up to the Trump administration and protect the gun safety laws our communities depend on, and our volunteers will be ready to help this new majority deliver.”

Annie Andrews joined the South Carolina chapter of Moms Demand Action in 2018 after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She later went through Demand a Seat, Everytown’s program for volunteers and gun violence survivors running for office. Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund endorsed Andrews in August, and Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund invested $500k in support of her campaign.

Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers made more than 15 million voter contacts to help elect gun sense candidates up and down the ballot. Everytown’s federal program centered on electing former Moms Demand Action volunteers running in eight battleground House districts that President Trump won in 2024. Of the six races that have been called as of midnight ET, all six volunteers have won. They join more than 600 former volunteers elected to office since 2021.