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Moms Demand Action Launches Campaign Pressuring Staples To Ban Guns From Its Stores
Grassroots Movement of Moms Tells Staples It’s Time to Get Gun Sense Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America announced today that it is launching a campaign to demand that Staples ban guns from its stores nationwide. The…
October 9, 2013
Moms Demand Action Applauds the Florida Legislature for Revisiting the State’s Current Stand Your Ground Statute
Grassroots Movement is calling on all states with Stand Your Ground Laws to take similar and immediate action Florida members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America supports the efforts of Florida state legislators, including state Sens.
October 9, 2013
Time to Block Gun Violence Against Women
By Chelsea Parsons and Shannon Watts via Reuters If October is like every other month, 46 women in the United States will be murdered with a gun by an intimate partner. Public attention was gripped…
October 3, 2013
Moms Demand Action Official Statement: Dave Evans, Legislative Aide Who Left Loaded Gun In MO Capitol Bathroom, Steps Down After Grassroots Movement Calls for His Termination
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is gratified to learn that Dave Evans, the legislative assistant to Speaker Tim Jones who recently left a ready-to-fire 9mm pistol loaded with hollow point bullets unattended in a public bathroom…
October 1, 2013
Moms Demand Action Launches October Domestic Gun Violence Awareness Campaign
Grassroots Movement Partners with Violence Policy Center to Release Gun-Related Domestic Violence Report; Study Finds Nine American Women Shot to Death Each Week by Husband or Intimate Partner In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Moms Demand Action for…
October 1, 2013
Moms Demand Action North Carolina Educating Restaurant Owners of New Law Which Takes Effect October 1
New Law Allows Concealed Carry Guns Inside Restaurants and Bars Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America North Carolina chapter is asking diners to talk to restaurant managers about the state’s new gun law and to only patronize…
October 1, 2013
Maryland Chapter of Moms Demand Action Supports Firearms Safety Act
The Maryland Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America supports the Maryland Firearms Safety Act of 2013, which goes into effect today. The new legislation includes a requirement for all handgun purchasers to acquire a license…
September 30, 2013
Moms Demand Action Reacts to The New York Times Report on Underreporting of Child Shooting Deaths
Based on an exposé in Sunday’s The New York Times suggesting that so-called “accidental” shooting deaths of American children are radically underreported, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is calling on Congress and…
September 23, 2013
Gun Reform Is Dead; Long Live Gun Reform
By Shannon Watts, Founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America via Huffington Post The gun lobby has been virtually unopposed for an entire generation and it has taken decades for them to lead…
September 23, 2013
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Announces Maura Sherlach Schwartz as National Spokesperson
Daughter of Sandy Hook Psychologist Mary Sherlach to focus on School Safety Issues Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America announced today that Maura Sherlach Schwartz will serve as a national spokesperson for the growing grassroots movement, focusing…
September 20, 2013
Enough Already With the Fatalism on Gun Control
By Alec MacGillis, New Republic Inexplicably, Shannon Watts was not looking miserable when I met her yesterday in Washington, even though the Beltway media’s been telling her she’s supposed to be. Watts, a former business…
September 18, 2013
Moms Demand Action Successfully Pressures Starbucks to Stop Allowing Guns in Stores
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America launched a campaign pressuring Starbucks to eliminate guns from its stores nationwide in early July. Just two months later, Starbucks is announcing that the company will no longer allow guns on…
September 11, 2013
Official Statement: Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America Responds to Colorado Recall Election Results
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a grassroots organization of more than 100,000 members, issued the following statement regarding the recall election results in Colorado: “The gun lobby may have won this local battle, but they…
September 4, 2013
How I Talk to My Children About Guns
By Kim Parker Russell, via mom.me In this country, a child or teen is shot every 3 hours and 15 minutes. I don’t want to scare my children, but I also want desperately for them…
September 3, 2013
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America Stands With Colorado State Senators Morse and Giron, Colorado Leaders Who Stand for Our Children’s Safety
After the mass shooting tragedies in Newtown and Aurora, legislators boldly passed landmark gun safety legislation, including background checks and magazine capacity limits, in order to protect the children and communities of Colorado. Two of the leaders of…
August 30, 2013
White House says it will close two loopholes in gun sales laws
By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post The White House announced Thursday that it will close two loopholes on gun sales by requiring background checks for gun purchases by corporations and trusts and banning almost all…
August 29, 2013
Moms Demand Action Applauds White House Action; Calls on Congress to Follow with Common Sense Reforms
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a grassroots organization of over 100,000 members, issued the following statement today regarding the Obama Administration’s announcement of two new executive actions to keep some of the most dangerous guns, such…
August 28, 2013
Moms Demand Action’s New PSA: Too Much, Or Not Enough?
By Lisa Belkin, Huffington Post The new video released by the group Moms Demand Action will upset people. It opens with a family waking up in a bucolic suburb, Mom making…
August 27, 2013
Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America Asks Moms To Kick Off The School Year With Gun Sense
Grassroots Movement Asks Moms to Pledge to Create Safer Homes, Schools, and Communities; Educates Moms about Guns on College Campuses; and Provides Back-to-School Shopping Guide of Businesses with Gun Sense As kids across the country head back to school,…
August 25, 2013
Moms Demand Action’s Kim Russell Discusses Starbucks’ Decision to Allow Open Carry in Stores on Fox and Friends Weekend – August 24th, 2013
Moms Demand Action’s National Director of Outreach Kim Russell discusses Starbucks’ Open Carry policy on Fox and Friends Weekend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuz9RdfSiw…
August 23, 2013
Newtown Action Alliance, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America, and National Gun Victims Action Council Urge Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to Meet With Newtown Families, Ban Guns From Stores
Gun violence prevention organizations Newtown Action Alliance, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and National Gun Victims Action Council support the signers of an open letter published today to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asking him to ban…
August 22, 2013
Moms Demand Action calls for Skipping Starbucks this Saturday
By Corky Siemaszko – New York Daily News Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is trying to get the coffee chain to bar patrons from openly carrying weapons in their stores. “Guns in…
August 21, 2013
Moms Demand Action: ‘Skip Starbucks Saturday’
By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY The Starbucks siren suddenly has a gun to her head. An advocacy group has called for “Skip Starbucks Saturday” this weekend — a nationwide boycott on Aug. 24, to pressure…
August 21, 2013
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America to Hold First “Skip Starbucks Saturday” This Weekend
As part of an on-going campaign to pressure Starbucks to ban guns from stores nationwide, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America will sponsor “Skip Starbucks Saturday” this Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. The day is in reaction to…
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/.
