Tell Congress to Act Now – Pass the Assault Weapons Ban and Safe Gun Storage Bills

Tell Congress to support two live-saving bills that passed the House of Representatives in the last Congress.

ADVOCACY ACTIONS

• Pass a Strong Federal Ban on Assault Weapons and High Capacity Magazines (S.25 & HR 698)
  According to FBI data, 1 in 5 law enforcement killed in the line of duty are killed by an assault weapon (Violence Policy Center)Assault weapons and high capacity magazines are easily available for civilians to acquire in the U.S. Weapons of war have no place in our society. In addition, these military-style weapons and high capacity magazines are the choice of domestic terrorists and other shooters in the vast majority of mass shootings that have taken place across our country.

  Military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines have no place in civilian society and are only designed to kill and injure large numbers of people in a short period of time. We cannot allow the daily carnage in our country to be the new normal.

  We need to keep dangerous military-style guns and rifles, including AR-15s, off our streets and out of our schools.

• Pass Ethan’s Law – Requiring Safe gun and ammunition storage (S.173 & HR 660)
  Ethan’s Law is a lifesaving policy is in honor of Ethan Song, a 15-year-old who died after unintentionally shooting himself with a gun that had been left in a cardboard box at his friend’s home.Senator Richard Blumenthal’s bill sets federal standards for safe firearm storage to KEEP KIDS SAFE in our nation. Safe firearm storage practices are supported by nearly three-quarters of Americans. Ethan’s Law would give federal agencies an opportunity to dramatically shift attitudes towards firearm safety and prevent many parents from losing their children to school shootings, unintentional shootings, gun suicides, and interpersonal violence in communities of color.

  Thirty-four percent of children in the United States (representing more than 22 million children in 11 million homes) live in homes with at least one firearm. Safe firearm storage can help reduce firearm suicides, unintentional firearm deaths and injuries, gun theft and instances where guns are brought to school and sometimes used in school shootings.