Extreme risk protection orders provide a much-needed remedy to temporarily remove firearms during a period of temporary crisis.
This fact sheet provides policy recommendations to address the weak oversight of the ammunition industry.
This legislation would help ensure that individuals convicted of hate crimes do not continue to have easy access to guns.
Assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines are weapons of war that have no place in America’s communities and should be banned.
Universal background checks are a crucial foundation for a strong system of gun safety laws that will help reduce gun violence and save lives.
Extreme risk protection orders provide a crucial tool for family members and law enforcement to intervene and prevent a tragic shooting.
Guns in the hands of domestic abusers pose an extreme risk to victims of abuse.
A comprehensive approach to reducing gun violence must include support for evidence-based violence intervention programs that engage all community stakeholders.
A glaring gap in the federal law allows individuals to buy a gun without a background check and with no questions asked.
Two decades of restrictions on public health research into gun violence has left us willfully ignorant about the full scope of this problem and the most effective interventions to prevent it.