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GIFFORDS launched its inaugural Gun Safety Champion Award to “spotlight up-and-coming candidates for elected office across the country who have made preventing gun violence their top priority.” [43] Winners included Lateefah Simon (candidate for US House, CA-12), Brian Williams (candidate for US House, TX-32), Yvette Valdés Smith ...
GIFFORDS Law Center and its affiliated organization, GIFFORDS, was a key player in the Biden administration’s efforts against gun violence, providing research and policy suggestions that contributed to 2022’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the administration’s numerous executive actions on guns, and the formation of the White House ...
Quavo, who lost his nephew and fellow Migos member Takeoff to gun violence last year, is turning his grief into action. Quavo heads to Washington, DC to bring awareness to gun violence prevention ...
Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which was established in 2013 in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in order to work for gun violence prevention programs and policy making.
Brady was founded in 1974 as the National Council to Control Handguns (NCCH). From 1980 through 2000, it operated under the name Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI). In 2001, it was renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and its sister project, the center to Prevent Handgun Violence, was renamed the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
In 1974, the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society formed the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, [2] a group of thirty affiliated religious, labor, and nonprofit organizations, with the goal of addressing "the high rates of gun-related crime and death in American society" by requiring licensing of gun owners, registering firearms, and banning private ownership of handguns.
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) was a United States non-profit organization and super PAC that supports gun control. [2] [3] The group's stated goal was "to encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership." [4] It typically supported Democratic politicians in ...
Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence was formed on January 17, 2011, after the 2011 Tucson shooting that killed six and injured U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords. The coalition's 24 founding members wrote a letter to Congress endorsing a bill to ban large-capacity ammunition magazines. [1] The bill, H.R. 308, did not pass.