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Louisiana Moms Demand Action, Everytown Applaud Committee Passage of Gun Violence Prevention Bill
SB 274 Would Raise the Minimum Age to Purchase Assault Weapons to 21 BATON ROUGE, La. – Volunteers with the Louisiana chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, today applauded members…
April 3, 2018
California Moms Demand Action, Everytown Respond to Shooting at Youtube Headquarters in San Bruno
Reports Indicate Shooter Shot and Injured at Least Four Employees Before Shooting and Killing Herself SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The California chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, today issued the…
April 3, 2018
South Carolina Moms Demand Action, Everytown Respond to Fatal Shooting of Transgender Woman in Chesterfield County
Sasha Wall Is At Least the Eighth Trans Person Killed Nationwide This Year; Fifth Killed by Gun Violence 2017 Was the Deadliest Year on Record for Transgender People in the U.S. With at Least 28 Killed Nationwide, 20 of Whom…
April 2, 2018
Retired CIA Chief of Russia Operations: Russia Sought “Mechanism by Which They Can, Sort of, Control the NRA
NEW: Rolling Stone Uncovers NRA’s Wayne LaPierre and Other Top NRA Brass Met With Self-Described Connection Between Russia and Trump Campaign, Maria Butina ALSO NEW: During 2015 NRA Delegation Trip, NRA Surrogate…
April 2, 2018
Georgia Moms Demand Action, Everytown Criticize General Assembly for Failure to Pass Any Meaningful Gun Violence Prevention Legislation This Session
ATLANTA, Ga. – Volunteers with the Georgia chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, today criticized members of the General Assembly for failing to pass any meaningful gun violence prevention legislation…
March 29, 2018
Grassroots Momentum for Gun Safety at Unprecedented Levels
Last weekend, Americans showed up in force for March for Our Lives events in Washington, D.C. and around the country. Led by students and gun violence survivors, they sent a clear message: protect us. They demanded that lawmakers make students’…
March 29, 2018
Victory for Gun Sense: Alabama Moms Demand Action, Everytown Applaud Defeat of Dangerous Gun Bills This Session
Volunteers With the Alabama Chapter of Moms Demand Action Supported Policymakers and Law Enforcement Officials in Their Efforts to Stop Reckless Gun Bills MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Volunteers with the Alabama chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America,…
March 29, 2018
NEW: NRA Admits Financial Support From Russian Official Reportedly at Center of FBI Investigation
Alexander Torshin Is Known Putin Ally, and Heads Group That Posted 2013 Video from Incoming National Security Advisor John Bolton Pushing for Expanded Gun Rights In Russia NEW YORK – In a stunning reversal, the NRA has…
March 28, 2018
Louisiana Moms Demand Action, Everytown Respond to the Fatal Shooting of Transgender Woman in Baton Rouge
Amia Tyrae Berryman Is at Least the Seventh Trans Person Killed Nationwide This Year;Fourth Killed by Gun Violence 2017 Was the Deadliest Year on Record for Transgender People in the U.S. With at Least 28 Killed Nationwide, 20 of…
March 28, 2018
ICYMI: Lincoln City Council passes bump stock ban with 6-0 vote
I wanted to make sure you saw the news that Lincoln’s City Council has unanimously passed a city ordinance banning the possession and sale of bump stocks and other “multiburst trigger activator” devices. Two Republicans and…
March 27, 2018
Breaking: NRA Admission it has Taken Foreign Money Raises Alarming New Questions
In Letter Response to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), NRA Admitted It Has Taken Money From “Foreign Individuals and Entities” “For Purposes Not Connected to Elections,” and Confirmed It Makes “Transfers Between [Different NRA] Accounts… As Permitted…
March 27, 2018
New Jersey Moms Demand Action, Everytown Applaud Assembly Votes on Gun Violence Prevention Bills, Urge Senate to Act
Among Other Things, Bills Would Require Background Checks on All Gun Sales, Create a Red Flag Law, Limit High-Capacity Magazines TRENTON, N.J. – Today, the New Jersey chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown…
March 26, 2018
ICYMI: Senator Tim Kaine Questions Whether John Bolton Can Get Security Clearance After Russian Gun Rights Video Surfaces
In case you missed it, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) questioned whether incoming White House national security adviser John Bolton could get full security clearance, citing Bolton’s contacts with foreign governments, including encouraging the Russian government to…
March 26, 2018
Everytown Continues to Support Student Organizers Following March for Our Lives
Following Hundreds of Student-Led Marches Across the Nation,Everytown Announces $1 Million in Grants and Organizing Tools for Students to Continue the Fight to End Gun Violence NEW YORK – At March for Our Lives events across the country on Saturday,…
March 26, 2018
March for Our Lives: What They’re Saying
The New York Times: “Hundreds of thousands of protesters, outraged by a recent massacre at a South Florida school and energized by the students who survived, are thronging streets across the globe in public protests on…
March 26, 2018
Rick Santorum Says Kids Should Take CPR Classes Instead of Push for Gun Laws — Sandy Hook School Shooting Survivor Responds
NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety released the following statement today from Sandy Hook School shooting survivor Erica Lafferty in response to comments by NRA A+ rated former Republican Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who said on CNN’s State of…
March 23, 2018
NEW: John Bolton Video Emerged Two Days Before Moscow Rally Planned by Alexander Torshin’s Russian Gun Group
Yesterday, NPR reported that in 2013, former NRA President David Keene had former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton film a video praising “a new era of freedom” in Russia and encouraging the Russian government to loosen its…
March 22, 2018
NEW: In 2013, NRA President David Keene had John Bolton Film a Video Used by Alexander Torshin’s Russian Gun Group
NPR reports today that in 2013, former U.N. Ambassador and one-time head of the NRA’s international affairs subcommittee John Bolton filmed a video that was used by the Russian gun rights group, the Right to Bear…
March 22, 2018
Everytown Applauds Citigroup for Setting Common-Sense Gun Policies for its Business Partners
Citigroup Announced Today that It’s Setting Restrictions on Sale of Firearms by Its Business Customers, Including Requirement for Background Checks on All Gun Sales and Prohibition on Firearm Sales to Those Under 21 NEW YORK –…
March 22, 2018
Idaho Moms Demand Action, Everytown, Denounce Enactment of Dangerous ‘Stand Your Ground’ Legislation
SB 1313 Endangers Traditional Self-Defense Principles and Puts Idahoans at Risk BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, today denounced the enactment of SB 1313, a…
March 22, 2018
Everytown Statement on Government Spending Bill, Which Includes Fix NICS and Language Clarifying the Dickey Amendment
NEW YORK – Today Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a part of Everytown, released the following statement on the government spending bill, which includes the Fix NICS Act and…
March 22, 2018
Victory for Public Safety: Dangerous Gun Bills Defeated in Indiana Legislature
End of Legislative Season Marked Defeat of Dangerous Gun Bills That Would Have Allowed Loaded Handguns in Indiana Schools and Would Have Repealed the State’s Handgun Carry License Requirement INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun…
March 22, 2018
A Link Between NRA and Cambridge Analytica
In light of Cambridge Analytica’s recent data scandal, we wanted to flag this Guardian report from September 2016 for you, titled “NRA to spend $15m on ads to defeat Hillary Clinton in…
March 22, 2018
New Poll: NRA Favorability Underwater for the First Time Since Before 2000
New NBC/WSJ Poll Finds NRA Favorability Underwater 37-40 Percent; Net Shift of 15-Points Since April 2017 When NRA Favorability Measured 45-33 Percent NEW YORK — Everytown for Gun Safety released the following statement today on a…
Did you know
Black Americans are nearly twice as likely as white Americans to die from COVID-19 and more than 10 times as likely to die from gun homicide.
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, “Gun Violence and COVID-19 in 2020: A Year of Colliding Crises,” May 7, 2021, https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-and-covid-19-in-2020-a-year-of-colliding-crises/.
