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Maryland Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Applaud Anne Arundel County Health Department for Introducing a Suicide Prevention Program with Resources on Secure Firearm Storage and Extreme Risk Protection Orders
Today, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statement applauding the Anne Arundel County Health Department for launching a pilot program to prevent firearm suicide and provide information…
April 13, 2023
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…
April 13, 2023
VICTORY FOR GUN SAFETY: Surrounded By Hundreds of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers, Michigan Governor Whitmer Signs Two Historic Gun Safety Bills into Law
Governor Whitmer Signs Historic Bills to Require Background Checks on All Unlicensed Gun Sales and the Secure Storage of Firearms as Hundreds of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Gather in Lansing for Annual Advocacy Day Bill Signing…
April 13, 2023
Shannon Watts Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
Moms Demand Action Founder Honored 10 Years After Launching What Has Become Nation’s Largest Grassroots Gun Violence Prevention Movement NEW YORK — Today, TIME named Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, to the 2023 TIME100, its annual list…
April 12, 2023
Maryland Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond to Shooting of Tasiyah Woodland, a 18-year-old Black Transgender Woman, in Mechanicsville
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 in response to the death of Tasiyah Woodland, an 18-year-old Black transgender woman, who was…
April 11, 2023
Mass Shooting In Front of Funeral Home In Northeast Washington, DC Kills One Person and Wounds Three Others; Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Call for Sustainable Investment in Community Violence Intervention Programs
The Washington, DC chapter of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement in response to a shooting early this afternoon outside a funeral home in Northeast D.C in…
April 10, 2023
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 &…
April 10, 2023
At Least Four Killed, Eight Others Wounded During Mass Shooting in Louisville, Kentucky; Everytown, Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Kentucky chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statement in response to a mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky this morning. Details…
April 6, 2023
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…
April 6, 2023
ICYMI: The Growing Gun Lobby Divide on Abolishing ATF
Just two weeks after gun extremists in the United States House of Representatives held a hearing attacking the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), NBC News is out with a new piece that dives into…