Everytown for Gun Safety is an advocacy group that seeks to prevent gun violence. Everytown for Gun Safety's Website.
Congressman (-) speaking at an event for Mayors Against Illegal Guns.Everytown for Gun Safety is an American which advocates for and against. Everytown was created in 2013 when Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America joined forces. Everytown for Gun Safety is largely financed by.The organization works to 'support efforts to educate policy makers, as well the press and the public, about the consequences of gun violence and promote efforts to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.' The group has focused on efforts to require on firearms purchases.
The organization also produces research and studies on gun violence. Moms Demand Action logo before its acquisition by Everytown Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was founded on December 15, 2012, one day after the. The organization was founded for mothers to advocate for gun violence prevention as a campaign of the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund. The group was founded by Shannon Watts in, and originally began as a group page titled 'One Million Moms for Gun Control.' By the end of 2013, Moms Demand Action had grown into an advocacy group with 130,000 members and chapters in all 50 states. The group has cited the example of (MADD) as a model for its establishment.
Moms Demand Action has members of Congress to expand for individuals purchasing guns, and states that it persuaded to ban guns from its coffee shops. Moms Demand Action endorses congressional candidates.An ad campaign launched by the group compared laws concerning with laws that have successfully banned other things in certain areas of the United States, including chocolates,. In December 2013, Moms Demand Action announced that it had merged with Mayors Against Illegal Guns to form Everytown for Gun Safety.
As of October 2017 it says it has 4 million members.In February 2018, in the aftermath of the, the group asking companies providing streaming services to remove the 's online channel from their offer. Students Demand Action For Gun Sense in America.
Students Demand Action supporters march at the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Parade in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is Everytown's student wing. After the February 2018 in Parkland Florida, many students implored Everytown for Gun Safety to found a branch dedicated to student activism. In response, Everytown founded the student organization and began accepting applications from students who wanted to found their own chapters of the group in early 2018.
Two days after the rally was held in Washington, D.C., Everytown announced a $1 million grant program would be made available to accelerate already-burgeoning growth. Students Demand Action chapters, in addition to pursuing goals set by student leaders and advisors, work with Everytown for Gun Safety's national office as well as local and state Moms Demand Action chapters to coordinate advocacy. In early 2019, Moms Demand Action hosted legislative advocacy days in coordination with local Students Demand Action chapters in multiple states According to Everytown, over 200 groups have been founded as of the end of 2018. NRA opposition In September 2009, the (NRA) Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) stated that Mayors Against Illegal Guns is not 'only concerned with 'illegal' guns' but is actually 'anti-gun'.
The NRA encouraged members to ask their mayors to resign from MAIG. In October 2009, NRA spokeswoman Rachel Parsons stated that 'the coalition's participating mayors from both large and small cities dropped from 463 to less than 400' as a result of the NRA's letter-writing campaign. Mayor Bloomberg, however, has said that while 60 mayors have left the organization since the NRA's campaign was launched, another 110 mayors have joined.Some of the NRA's criticism has included attacks on Bloomberg, MAIG's co-founder. In a cover story of their news magazine America's 1st Freedom, the NRA has described Mayor Bloomberg as 'a billionaire, Boston-grown evangelist for the ' who leads a 'cabal.'
Norell, contributing editor, said Bloomberg is 'Beholden to nothing except his own ambitions, the mayor has established himself as a kind of national gun-control vigilante.' The cover of the issue, according to, depicts Bloomberg as a 'giant octopus, looking fierce and slightly insane, with serpentine arms swirling behind him'.The NRA's web site lists 73 mayors that have quit the MAIG, including 15 in Pennsylvania, alone.Mayor of, said she resigned 'because she thought MAIG was attempting to erode all gun ownership, not just illegal guns.' John Tkazik, mayor of who is a member of the NRA and a former member of MAIG resigned, saying he and 50 others also resigned because 'MAIG became a vehicle for Bloomberg to promote his personal gun-control agenda - Violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. It did not take long to realize that MAIG's agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens.The NRA has said that MAIG has used mayor's names without permission or were otherwise misidentified.
Controversy over definition of school shootings Following the on February 14, 2018, Everytown stated that the shooting was the 18th school shooting of the year, a statistic the called 'flat wrong'. The instance Everytown counted as the first school shooting of the year regarded a 31-year-old man's suicide in the parking lot of a Michigan school that had been closed for seven months. Another instance regarded a third-grader pressing the trigger on an officer's holstered weapon, where the firearm discharged to the floor. Everytown's basis for a school shooting is defined as 'any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds'. Reported that the 'real number' of school shootings since January 1, 2018, was six. By 's standards, the number was four.The group's definition of a 'school shooting' was also challenged in 2014 when Everytown claimed there had been 74 school shootings since.
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History OriginMayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) was formed in April 2006 during a summit co-hosted by mayors of and of at New York's mayoral residence,. Bloomberg and Menino co-chaired the coalition. The initial group consisted of 15 mayors who signed a statement of principles. By the end of 2014, there were 855 mayors in the coalition.In April 2014, MAIG merged with Moms Demand Action to form Everytown for Gun Safety. The launch of Everytown occurred nearly one year after the U.S. Senate debated a series of changes to federal gun laws in the wake of the, including a failed amendment, sponsored by West Virginia Sen. (D) and Pennsylvania Sen.
(R), that would have required background checks for all gun sales taking place at gun shows or over the internet. According to Bloomberg, Everytown was founded to match the in political influence. Issues Background checksThe organization advocates for expanding the background check system for gun buyers through changes in state and federal laws, and supports. The organization also supports state laws requiring the reporting of mental health records to the national background check system. Domestic violenceEverytown has supported laws that prohibit domestic abusers from obtaining firearms. Internal research produced by Everytown concludes that states that require background checks for private handgun sales have lower rates of intimate partner gun violence than states that do not require background checks. According to the group, Everytown supported the passage of laws intended to block convicted domestic abusers and people subject to domestic violence restraining orders in six states in 2014: Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Preventable injuriesThe organization supports gun safety technology and laws requiring safe storage of firearms to prevent accidental child gun deaths, citing the high rate of firearm injuries among American children compared to other countries. Gun traffickingThe organization also favors strengthening penalties for gun trafficking through the creation of a federal gun trafficking statute. Tiahrt AmendmentPrior to the inception of Everytown, a priority goal of Mayors Against Illegal Guns was to repeal the, named after its sponsor, former Congressman (R-KS). Since its passage in 2003 as an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, the Tiahrt Amendment has forbidden the (ATF) from releasing information from its firearm trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a specific criminal investigation, and any data so released is deemed inadmissible in a civil lawsuit. Tiahrt stated that his amendment intended to protect the privacy of gun owners and to prevent abuse of the data by anyone outside of law enforcement agencies.Mayors Against Illegal Guns sought the repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment for these reasons:. The Tiahrt Amendment restricts access of state and local law enforcement authority to gun trace data, hindering municipal police departments' ability to track down sellers of illegal guns, to investigate gun trafficking patterns, and to make connections between individual gun-related crimes.
Mayor Bloomberg has called the Amendment 'an insult to the thousands of police officers that face the threat of illegal guns.' . The Tiahrt Amendment requires that background check records be destroyed within 24 hours.
According to MAIG, this makes it harder for law enforcement authorities to catch law-breaking gun dealers who falsify their records and makes it more difficult to identify and track down straw purchasers who buy guns on behalf of criminals who wouldn't be able to pass a background check or prohibited purchasers who buy firearms themselves due to errors in the background check process. The Tiahrt Amendment denies the the authority to require dealer inventory checks to detect lost and stolen guns. Under current rules, the ATF can conduct a warrantless search of any licensed gun dealer once per year.Joining Mayors Against Illegal Guns in supporting the repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment were 10 national law enforcement organizations, including the, the, the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the; state law enforcement associations representing 22 states; and individual police chiefs representing 39 states. The has pointed out that the ATF under the Bush administration (2001–2008) was unable to produce any evidence that law enforcement officers were harmed by the agency's release of crime gun trace data prior to 2003.In July 2007, after the rebuffed attempts to repeal the amendment, the went further, approving a bill that, according to, 'threatened law enforcement officials with prison time for using gun tracing data beyond a specific investigation, say, for identifying and targeting trafficking patterns.'
Congressman Tiahrt responded to MAIG's position on his amendment in a congressional statement in 2007:At issue was a campaign urging repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from releasing gun trace data to the public. The ATF gun trace database contains investigation-specific information and is made available to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors for criminal investigations. The ATF and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the nation's largest law enforcement organization, support the Tiahrt Amendment and have requested its reauthorization every year since 2003.
Both organizations claimed repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment would jeopardize ongoing criminal investigations and risk the lives of undercover law enforcement officers. The organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns is behind the Tiahrt repeal campaign.
The group claims to have the support of numerous police chiefs across the country, which is also misleading according to National FOP President:'The mayors would have you believe that law enforcement supports giving them the information on gun traces because many of their employees-namely police chiefs, who often serve at the pleasure of the mayor-have publicly backed their coalition,' explained Canterbury. 'But the officers in the field who are actually working illegal gun cases know that releasing sensitive information about pending cases can jeopardize the integrity of an investigation or even place the lives of undercover officers in danger. That is why the Fraternal Order of Police has always supported language protecting firearms trace data, now known as the 'Tiahrt amendment.' For the men and women in uniform who are fighting illegal guns, it is a matter of officer safety and good police work.' NY Police Commissioner, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FOP have all requested this language to protect investigations and law enforcement officers. Hopefully it is true that not one law enforcement officer ever died prior to the enactment of the Tiahrt protection—Rep.
Tiahrt joins the FOP, ATF and others in supporting a policy that will keep it that way.' Kelly, however, has participated in events calling for the repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment. The ATF under the Obama administration has issued no formal position on the amendment. While a Senator, President Barack Obama stated:At a time when bloodshed on our streets is on the rise, making sure that our law enforcement officers have all the tools they need to fight crime should be our top priority. But instead of providing those tools, the Tiahrt Amendment ties the hands of police in their effort to halt illegal gun trafficking and sales. I am proud to join the Mayors Against Illegal Guns in their fight against this dangerous legislation.
Our communities and the brave men and women who risk their lives everyday to protect us deserve more from Congress.His administration, however, sought only minor modifications to the amendment during the most recent appropriations cycle. Other issuesAt its launch the organization said it would not advocate for a ban on assault weapons.Everytown has filed briefs in support of New Jersey's and California's permitting law. A brief was filed challenging Florida's against local firearm ordinances.In July 2018, the organization sought an injunction to block the distribution of blueprints for by.The group also advocated for the prohibition of bump stocks following the.
Programs and political activitiesIn April 2008, —the largest retailer of firearms in the U.S.—voluntarily adopted a number of new sales practices at the behest of Mayors Against Illegal Guns to 'help ensure that guns do not fall into the wrong hands.' Senior Vice President J.P. Suarez stated that Wal-Mart signed the 10-point code of the 'Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership' to help the corporation 'fine tune the things we're already doing and further strengthen our standards.'
He added, 'We hope other retailers will join us in adopting the code.' The 'Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership' has since become a model for Heeding God's Call, a coalition of faith organizations in Philadelphia that has encouraged local gun dealers to adopt the 10-point code. In 2009, Mayors Against Illegal Guns lobbied against the Thune Amendment on concealed firearms, taking out full paper ads in hundreds of newspapers and directly lobbying then Pennsylvania Senator. The Thune Amendment, often referred to as 'Concealed Carry Reciprocity,' would have changed federal law to require each U.S. State to recognize permits from all other states. Currently, each state decides which other states' permits they will recognize.
The NRA, which supported the amendment, vowed to 'score' the vote of legislators. The amendment was defeated 58 to 39, the first time the NRA had lost a vote on the Senate floor in a decade.After the in which Representative (D-AZ) was injured, the organization started a petition called Fix Gun Checks to require background checks for all gun purchasers, which received 250,000 signatures. The group also released research demonstrating that 18 states had submitted fewer than 100 mental health records to the background check system, and lent its support for the Fix Gun Checks Act, introduced by New York Sen. The group drove a truck on a two-month tour of the country with planned stops in several states to raise awareness about gun violence.In 2012, the organization worked with retired military leaders to successfully overturn a Congressional amendment prohibiting military commanders and mental health professionals from inquiring about or keeping records of firearms and ammunition in service members' private possession. In April 2013, the organization led efforts to pass legislation in the U.S.
Senate to require a background check for all gun sales in commercial settings. Known as the Manchin-Toomey Amendment (Amendment 715 of the 113th Congress), the legislation would have expanded the requirements for conducting background checks to cover all gun sales made over the internet and at gun shows. The amendment ultimately failed to win the 60 votes necessary for passage in the Senate.After the Senate vote, Mayors Against Illegal Guns ran ads in 13 states either in support of Senators who voted to pass the legislation or in opposition to lawmakers who voted against it. The group spent approximately $12 million on these advertisements. Mayors Against Illegal Guns also ran a bus tour, similar to the bus tour it organized following the shooting of Giffords, entitled 'No More Names.' The 'No More Names' tour visited 25 states in 100 days to build local support for passing gun violence prevention legislation in Congress.No More Names is a program launched on June 14, 2013 (the six month anniversary of the ) with the stated purpose to 'pass common-sense laws, including comprehensive background checks, that will reduce gun violence and save lives.'
The program revolves around a bus tour of twenty-five states in one hundred days starting in. At each stop 'gun violence survivors, mayors, faith leaders, and other community members will read aloud the names of Americans killed with guns since Newtown.' This is to encourage members of Congress 'to pass common sense gun laws.'
MAIG organizers issued an apology after speakers mistakenly included the name of perpetrator among a list of shooting victims read aloud at a gun control rally in — an error noted in the and criticized by the New Hampshire Republican Party, amongst others. Further inspection found that the list also contained the names of at least ten murder suspects including former officer-turned-fugitive. In response, the group issued a statement explaining that it used a list compiled by as its source.During the 2014 elections, endorsed over 100 candidates for office in 28 states. Everytown was active in supporting the passage of Initiative 594, a successful that changed Washington State law to require background checks for all gun purchases. According to public records, Everytown's expenditures in support of Initiative 594 total over $3.2 million, and was among the top five contributors to the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, the Washington state group formed to support the passage of Initiative 594. Everytown also opposed Washington State Initiative 591, a countermeasure to Initiative 594 supported by gun rights groups.
Initiative 594 was approved on November 4, 2014 with 59.3% voting yes and 40.7% voting no. Initiative 591, which appeared on the same ballot, was rejected with 55.3% voting no and 44.7% voting yes. The group also supported the reelection of Colorado Governor (D) and State Senators who supported the 2013 passage of gun violence prevention laws in the state, including a law that requires background checks on all gun sales.Following on the organization's successful advocacy of Washington State Initiative 594, the group announced plans to support a similar initiative in.
On December 8, 2014, the Nevada initiative qualified to be on that state's 2016 ballot. The initiative passed, but is on hold due to state Attorney General 's interpretation of the ballot language regarding involvement of the making it unenforceable. On October 4, 2017, the initiative support campaign, Nevadans for Background Checks, filed suit against Laxalt and Governor, demanding that they implement the law. Everytown has announced that it will consider ballot initiative campaigns in, and.In December 2015, the organization teamed up with the (NBA) to produce a series of ads calling for an end to gun violence, without offering specific policy recommendations. NBA players featured in the ads included. The ads first aired on Christmas Day that year.Everytown, Moms Demand Action, and Students Demand Action sponsor a gun forum for 2020 Presidential candidates at on August 10,.
Moms Demand Action logo before its acquisition by Everytown Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in AmericaMoms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was founded on December 15, 2012, one day after the. The organization was founded for mothers to advocate for gun violence prevention as a campaign of the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund. The group was founded by Shannon Watts in, and originally began as a group page titled 'One Million Moms for Gun Control.' By the end of 2013, Moms Demand Action had grown into an advocacy group with 130,000 members and chapters in all 50 states. The group has cited the example of (MADD) as a model for its establishment. Moms Demand Action has members of Congress to expand for individuals purchasing guns, and states that it persuaded to ban guns from its coffee shops.
Moms Demand Action endorses congressional candidates.An ad campaign launched by the group compared laws concerning with laws that have successfully banned other things in certain areas of the United States, including chocolates,. In December 2013, Moms Demand Action announced that it had merged with Mayors Against Illegal Guns to form Everytown for Gun Safety. As of October 2017 it says it has 4 million members.In February 2018, in the aftermath of the, the group asking companies providing streaming services to remove the 's online channel from their offer. Students Demand Action For Gun Sense in America. Students Demand Action supporters march at the 2018 Twin Cities Pride Parade in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is Everytown's student wing. After the February 2018 in Parkland Florida, many students implored Everytown for Gun Safety to found a branch dedicated to student activism. In response, Everytown founded the student organization and began accepting applications from students who wanted to found their own chapters of the group in early 2018.
Two days after the rally was held in Washington, D.C., Everytown announced a $1 million grant program would be made available to accelerate already-burgeoning growth. Students Demand Action chapters, in addition to pursuing goals set by student leaders and advisors, work with Everytown for Gun Safety's national office as well as local and state Moms Demand Action chapters to coordinate advocacy. In early 2019, Moms Demand Action hosted legislative advocacy days in coordination with local Students Demand Action chapters in multiple states According to Everytown, over 200 groups have been founded as of the end of 2018.
NRA oppositionIn September 2009, the (NRA) Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) stated that Mayors Against Illegal Guns is not 'only concerned with 'illegal' guns' but is actually 'anti-gun'. The NRA encouraged members to ask their mayors to resign from MAIG. In October 2009, NRA spokeswoman Rachel Parsons stated that 'the coalition's participating mayors from both large and small cities dropped from 463 to less than 400' as a result of the NRA's letter-writing campaign. Mayor Bloomberg, however, has said that while 60 mayors have left the organization since the NRA's campaign was launched, another 110 mayors have joined.Some of the NRA's criticism has included attacks on Bloomberg, MAIG's co-founder. In a cover story of their news magazine America's 1st Freedom, the NRA has described Mayor Bloomberg as 'a billionaire, Boston-grown evangelist for the ' who leads a 'cabal.' Norell, contributing editor, said Bloomberg is 'Beholden to nothing except his own ambitions, the mayor has established himself as a kind of national gun-control vigilante.'
The cover of the issue, according to, depicts Bloomberg as a 'giant octopus, looking fierce and slightly insane, with serpentine arms swirling behind him'.The NRA's web site lists 73 mayors that have quit the MAIG, including 15 in Pennsylvania, alone.Mayor of, said she resigned 'because she thought MAIG was attempting to erode all gun ownership, not just illegal guns.' John Tkazik, mayor of who is a member of the NRA and a former member of MAIG resigned, saying he and 50 others also resigned because 'MAIG became a vehicle for Bloomberg to promote his personal gun-control agenda - Violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. It did not take long to realize that MAIG's agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens.The NRA has said that MAIG has used mayor's names without permission or were otherwise misidentified. Controversy over definition of school shootingsFollowing the on February 14, 2018, Everytown stated that the shooting was the 18th school shooting of the year, a statistic the called 'flat wrong'.
The instance Everytown counted as the first school shooting of the year regarded a 31-year-old man's suicide in the parking lot of a Michigan school that had been closed for seven months. Another instance regarded a third-grader pressing the trigger on an officer's holstered weapon, where the firearm discharged to the floor. Everytown's basis for a school shooting is defined as 'any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds'. Reported that the 'real number' of school shootings since January 1, 2018, was six. By 's standards, the number was four.The group's definition of a 'school shooting' was also challenged in 2014 when Everytown claimed there had been 74 school shootings since.
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