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Members of the Campaign against assault weapons

A New Routine for America

AIDS CT

All Saints Church Pasadena Gun Violence Prevention Task Force

All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church

American Family Voices

American Federation of Teachers

Amnesty International USA

Anglican Church of Mexico

Anna's Place: A Franciscan Hospitality Center

Antelope Valley (Brady) California

Arizonans for Gun Safety

Art = Ammo, Artists Against Gun Violence

Avaaz

Ban Assault Weapons Now

Battle Born Progress

Birmingham (Brady) Alabama

Blessed Ministries

Brady

Brady Baltimore, Maryland

Brady Barnwell County, South Carolina

Brady Bergen County, New Jersey

Brady Boston, Massachusetts

Brady Campaign at Indiana University

Brady Dayton Chapter, Ohio

Brady Monongalia County, West Virginia

Brady Sussex County, New Jersey

Brady Twin Cities, Minnesota

Brady University of Michigan

Brady/Million Mom March Greater Pittsburgh Area, Pennsylvania

Brady/Million Mom March Middlesex County, New Jersey

Brave New Films

Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition

Broader Representation Advocacy Team- Political Action Committee (BRAT-PAC)

Buffalo (Brady), New York

California Team Enough

Californians For Gun Safety

Camden-Burlington (Brady), New Jersey

Campaign to Unload

Ceasefire Oregon

CeaseFire Pennsylvania

Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church

Central Arkansas (Brady)

Central Lutheran Church

Central Minnesota (Brady)

Central Ohio Brady/Million Mom March Chapter

Central Oklahoma Brady

Centro de Estudios Ecuménicos

Charleston Brady, South Carolina

Chi-Town GVP Summit

Chicago's Citizens for Change, Inc.

Childrens Firearm Safety Alliance

Clark County (Vancouver) Million Mom March, Washington

Cleveland Brady, Ohio

Cleveland School Remembers Stockton Brady, California

Coalition Against Gun Violence, a Santa Barbara County Coalition

Coalition for Peace Action

Coalition of Nebraskans Against Gun Violence

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

CODEPINK Women for Peace

Colorado Ceasefire

Colorado Faith Communities United to End Gun Violence

Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence

Concert Across America to End Gun Violence

Congregation Kol Ami

Connecticut Against Gun Violence

Contra Costa County Brady, California

CT Conference of the United Church of Christ

Dallas (Brady), Texas

Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence (DECAGV)

Delaware Million Mom March

Democracy for America

Denver (Brady), Colorado

DeSoto Country Brady, Mississippi

Disarm Hate

District of Columbia (Brady)

Doctors for America

Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, NY

Dominican Sisters of Peace

Emerson College Brady, Massachusetts

End the Madness

Episcopal Peace Fellowship

Equality California

Equality Florida

Essex County Million Mom March, New Jersey

Every Child Matters

Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence

Families4peace

Family and Children's Ministries, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) DHM

Felician Sisters of Livonia

First Church

FIVE AWAKE

Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

Franciscan Action Network

Franciscan Peace Center

Franciscan Sisters

Franciscan Sisters of Mary

Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph

Franciscan Sisters of the Poor

Friends Against Violence Everywhere (FAVE)

GAYS against GUNS

Gays Not Guns

Georgetown Against Gun Violence

Georgetown County Brady, South Carolina

Georgia Alliance for Social Justice

Georgians for Gun Safety

Global Exchange

Global Vision

God Before Guns

Grand Strand Brady, South Carolina

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence-Cape Cod

Grandparents Against Gun Violence (MO)

Greater Chicagoland Brady, Illinois

Greater Danbury Brady, Connecticut

Greater Phoenix Million Mom March, Arizona

Greater Rochester Brady/Million Mom March, New York

Greenpeace US

Greenwich Council Against Gun Violence

Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart

Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah

GunControlToday

Guns Down America

Gunsense Vermont

Hampton Roads Million Mom March, Virginia

Hands Up for Gun Safety (HUGS)

Hawaii Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

Healing 4 Our Families & Our Nation

Heeding God's Call

Herndon-Reston Alliance To End Gun Violence

Holman United Methodist Church

Honor with Action Coalition

Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence

International Health & Epidemiology Research Center

Iowans for Gun Safety

Jefferson County (Brady), West Virginia

Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Jewish Women International (JWI)

Joint Action Committee

Journey4ward

JPIC Office of the Wheaton Franciscans

Jr. Newtown Action Alliance

Justice, peace and integrity for creation committee

Lake County (Brady), Illinois

Lane County (Eugene) Million Mom March, Oregon

Las Vegas (Brady), Nevada

Latah County Brady Chapter, Idaho

Latin America Working Group Education Fund

League of Women Voters of Florida

League of Women Voters of the United States

Lexington and Central Kentucky Million Mom March

LGBT4GVP

Long Beach Brady, California

Long Island Brady Chapter, New York

Los Angeles Brady, California

Louisiana Violence Reduction Coalition

LPAC

LWV of Florida

MA Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

Macomb County (Brady), Michigan

March For Racial Justice #M4RJ

Marin County (Brady), California

Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence

Massachusetts Brady

Mercer County Million Mom March, New Jersey

Metro Atlanta Million Mom March, Georgia

Metro St. Louis Brady, Missouri

Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights

Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Caucus

Michigan Million Mom March

Mike the Gun Guy

Million Hoodies Movement for Justice

Missionary Sisters of the I.C.

Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception

MomsRising

Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought

Montgomery Brady, Alabama

Montgomery County (Brady), Maryland

Mountain View United Church

MoveOn.org Civic Action

Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church

Napa County Brady, California

Nashville Brady, Tennessee

National Action Network

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

National Council of Jewish Women

National Die-In, USA

National Domestic Violence Hotline

National Education Association

National Gun Victims Action Council

National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund

National Medical Council on Gun Violence

National Physicians Alliance

National Women's Law Center

Nevada-Placer Brady, California

New Castle Promise

New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence

New Orleans (Brady), Lousiana

New York City Brady Chapter

New York University Law Brady chapter

New York Youth/Team Enough

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence

Newtown Action Alliance

NoRA

North Carolina Council of Churches

North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Education Fund

Northeast Kansas Brady, Kansas

Northern Central Florida (Brady)

Northern Nevada (Brady)

Northern Virginia Million Mom March

Northland Minnesota Million Mom March

Northwest Corner Committee for Gun Violence Prevention

Oakland/Alameda County Brady, California

Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence

Oklahoma Gun Sense

One Pulse for America

Orange County Brady, California

Orange Ribbons For Gun Safety

OSAGE NATION (Brady), Oklahoma

Pacem in Terris-Delaware

People Demanding Action

People for a Safer Society

Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence

Pomona Valley Brady, California

Portland Million Mom March, Oregon

Pride Fund to End Gun Violence

Programa Casa Refugiados

Progressive Congress Action Fund

Project End Gun Violence

Protect Minnesota

Protest Easy Guns

Psychiatrists for Gun Violence Prevention

Rabbis Against Gun Violence

Raleigh Brady, North Carolina

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Resistance Seacoast

Resolve for Gunsense Indiana

Rhode Island Brady

Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence

Richmond Million Mom March, Virginia

Riverside County (Brady), California

Rocky Mountain Hye Advocates

Rutgers University Brady, New Jersey

Sacramento Valley Brady, California

Sacred Ground Ministries

Safe Campus Colorado

Safe Tennessee Project

San Diegans for Gun Violence Prevention

San Diego Brady, California

San Fernando Valley Brady, California

San Francisco Brady, California

San Joaquin Valley (Brady), California

San Luis Obispo (Brady), California

San Mateo County Brady, California

Santa Barbara Brady, California

Santa Clara County Brady, California

Santa Cruz County Brady, California

Santa Fe (Brady), New Mexico

Sarasota County (Brady), Florida

Savannah Brady, Georgia

Seattle Brady, Washington

Servicios y Asesoría para la Paz A.C.

SF State (Brady), California

Silent March

Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, PA

Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities

Sisters of St. Francis of Tiffin, OH

Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Albany Province, NY

Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, LA Province

Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St Louis, MO

Sisters of St. Joseph, St Paul, MN

Solano County Brady, California

Sonoma County Brady, California

South Florida (Brady)

Sravasti Abbey

St. Charles, Missouri (Brady)

St. Louis University Law (Brady), Missouri

St. Mark's Episcopal Church Capitol Hill DC

St. Sabina's Church

Stanford University (Brady Chapter), California

States United to Prevent Gun Violence

Step Up, Step Out: End the Culture of Violence, a ministry of Asylum Hill Congregational Church

Stop Handgun Violence

Stop Killing Innocent People (SKIP)

Stop the Violence Coalition, Buffalo, NY

Stop the Violence Prayer Chain, Wilm. DE

Survivors Empowered Action Fund

Survivors Empowered South Carolina

Survivors Lead

Team 26

Temple Micah Gun Violence Prevention Group

The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus

The Connecticut Effect

The ENOUGH Campaign

The Ethan Miller Song Foundation

The Greater Phoenix Million Mom March

The Washington office on Latin America

Theodore Parker Church UU Social Action Committee

Tri-City Alameda County Chapter (Brady), California

UltraViolet

Union for Reform Judaism

Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey

University of Michigan Brady Chapter, Michigan

Vanderbilt University Brady Chapter, Tennessee

Ventura County Brady, California

Vermont Youth for GunSense

Violence Policy Center

Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles

Virginia Center for Public Safety

Virginia Gun Violence Prevention Coalition

Vision Quilt

Washing Ceasefire Foundation

Washington Ceasefire

We The People For Sensible Gun Laws

Westchester County Million Mom March, New York

Western Illinois (Brady)

WHEATON FRANCISCAN SISTERS Justice and Peace Office

Wheaton Franciscans

Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Ed Fund

Woman's National Democratic Club

Women Against Gun Violence

Women Against the Violence Epidemic (WAVE)

Women's March

Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice, St. Louis, MO

Yolo County Brady, California

Youth Over Guns

YWCA USA

Background/History

An AR-15 and high capacity magazines were used by a gunman to murder 20 children and six educators in less than five minutes at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.

AR-15s and other assault weapons are banned in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C. therefore they are legal in 43 states. High-capacity magazines or large-capacity magazines are banned in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont therefore they are legal in 41 states.

President Bill Clinton signed the Assault Weapons Ban into law on September 13, 1994 but the law expired on September 13, 2004 under President George W. Bush. In the decade after the ban expired, there was 347% increase in fatalities from mass shootings.

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) introduced S.736 and Representative David Cicilline (D-RI) introduced H.R.1808 to restrict civilian access to assault weapons. We have worked closely with Brady United and March for Our Lives to seek cosponsors for these life-saving bills.

Find out all you need to know about the assault weapons ban legislation HERE

STATE LEGISLATION

States that ban assault weapons: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and the District of Columbia

Click HERE for more information.

FLORIDA ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN: The Campaign Against Assault Weapons sent THIS LETTER to all members of the Florida Legislature on February 5, 2021. The letter was signed by 300+ groups in support of ​Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, LWV of Florida, The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, and Ban Assault Weapons Now’s efforts t​o pass SB 370 & HB 653 to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in Florida.