Five of the country’s top anti-gun groups are celebrating the launch of a new organization comprised of state lawmakers, which will focus on changing state gun laws.
Legislators for Safer Communities consists of 171 state lawmakers from 43 states, and will serve as a “hub for collaboration, partnership, shared resources, strategy, research, and peer networking,” according to an Everytown for Gun Safety press release.
“The coalition will work in partnership with Brady, Community Justice, Everytown, GIFFORDS, and March For Our Lives,” the release states. All five groups issued statements heralding the new organization.
Everytown, Giffords and others say the new group will circumvent the “congressional stalemate” on gun-control legislation at the national level and will focus on changing state laws, where they have seen recent successes.
“When Congress is gridlocked, we have watched state legislators across the country who understand that gun violence is preventable, work relentlessly in their statehouses to keep their communities safe from gun violence,” Tanya Schardt, Brady’s senior counsel and senior policy director, said in a press release. “Now, with the formation of this new coalition, their efforts have been united as they pursue their shared goals: to save lives through common sense and evidence-based policies. Brady applauds these champions and supports their efforts.”
While the Legislators for Safer Communities claims to be independent and nonpartisan, all of the lawmakers named on its scant one-page website are Democrats. The site offers no information about the group’s funding, but suggests it has “partnered” with the five national anti-gun groups.
The group’s website has no phone number, only a digital contact form. The group did not return emails submitted through the contact portal seeking additional information about its funding and comments for this story. It is not listed on GuideStar or other charity navigators.
Legislators of Safer Communities parrots most of the talking points used by its five national partners. The group claims “gun violence is a public health issue with complex roots in systemic inequalities.” Its solutions, the website states, will focus on “equity and justice.”
Experienced Gun Controllers
Delaware Senate Majority Whip Tizzy Lockman is one of the six co-chairs and like her co-chairs is notoriously anti-gun.
Lockman introduced a permit-to-purchase bill, which was signed into law four months ago. Her bill requires Delawareans seeking to purchase a handgun to pass a state-approved training course, submit fingerprints and undergo a background check. It bars private sales to anyone without the state-issued permit.
Co-Chair Representative Bob Morgan, a Democrat from Illinois, chairs his state’s House Firearm Safety and Reform Working Group, which “recommends legislation to crack down on gun violence in Illinois.”
“Under Rep. Morgan’s leadership, the group will hear from gun violence experts and stakeholders, build consensus and advance impactful reforms,” Morgan’s website states.
Co-chair Assembly Majority Floor Leader Sandra Jauregui of Nevada, introduced bills that banned guns at polling places, adopted ATF’s definition of frames and receivers and prohibited anyone under 21 from owning or possessing “certain assault weapons.”
They are joined as co-chairs of the new anti group by other Democratic lawmakers Florida Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, Kentucky Rep. Keturah Herron and Washington Rep. Liz Berry.
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Neat collaborators are chosing to self identify.
Look at those pics, all of them have that sort of “i’m unhinged” stare-look to their eyes with their fake smiles deceptive people give. That kinda predatory stare-look you get from criminals sizing you up as a potential victim. Now Bob, hes a little different, he definitely has over done that fake smile deceptive people give sort of like hes saying to him self “is this enough, more, yeah, show all my teeth.”
Looks like hiring was based on DEI principles.
BREAKING: Someone Finally Fact-Checks Kamala Harris On Her ‘Gun Violence’ Plan
w—w w.- shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-control/breaking-someone-finally-fact-checks-kamala-harris-on-her-gun-violence-plan/ (but not fully enough though)
“It happened during an interview of the vice president at the National Association of Black Journalists after one of the questioners asked Vice President Harris about her gun control platform.”
If you aren’t giving to your state organization then you are just so wrong.
Your state group is what got state permitless carry passed. Not a nation group
This time next year mentioning this org in any non-positive context will result in claims that you’re peddling conspiracy theories and no such group exists and any action taking place is wholly coincidental grassroots activism by concerned residents.
Point them to this very day and this very release and they’ll ignore that it exists while calling you racist.
That’s how they roll.
Admitting that they’ve lost the national level?
They should have great success in CA and NY.
Fundraising/money laundering if nothing else with how some of the pending court cases could go for them.
Frequently I see and hear Gun owners echoing the concocted buzzwords Gun Violence like it’s legitimate and wise. The incompetent helping hands Gun Control zealots receive from a large segment of Gun Owners is a problem. If hearing the truth hurts some feelings I don’t give a sht, it is what it is like Violence is Violence…period.
I see it as a list of state legislators that are simply stating they wish to seek other employment.
Hoping to get on the Bloomberg gravy-train?
Looks to me like a conspiracy to circumvent SCOTUS decisions. But no surprise there.
RICO
Legislators for Safer Communities will serve as a hub for collaboration, partnership, shared resources, strategy, research, and peer networking. The coalition will work in partnership with Brady, Community Justice, Everytown, GIFFORDS, and March For Our Lives. Learn more about Legislators for Safer Communities at legislatorsforsafercommunities.org.
Co-Chairs:
Senate Majority Whip Tizzy Lockman, Delaware
Representative Christine Hunschofsky, Florida
Representative Bob Morgan, Illinois
Representative Keturah Herron, Kentucky
Assembly Majority Floor Leader Sandra Jauregui, Nevada
Representative Liz Berry, Washington
Steering Committee:
Senator Loki Tobin, Alaska
Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, California
Assemblymember Mike Gipson, California
Senator Tom Sullivan, Colorado
Senate Majority Whip Tizzy Lockman, Delaware
Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend, Delaware
Representative Christine Hunschofsky, Florida
Representative Michelle Au, Georgia
Representative Nabeela Syed, Illinois
Representative Bob Morgan, Illinois
Representative Keturah Herron, Kentucky
Senator Royce Duplessis, Louisiana
Speaker of the House Rachel Talbot Ross, Maine
Senator Jeff Waldstreicher, Maryland
House Majority Whip Ranjeev Puri, Michigan
Representative Cedrick Frazier, Minnesota
Assembly Majority Floor Leader Sandra Jauregui, Nevada
Senator Debra Altschiller, New Hampshire
Representative Andrea Romero, New Mexico
Senator Zellnor Myrie, New York
Speaker of the House Joanna McClinton, Pennsylvania
Representative Justin J. Pearson, Tennessee
Senator Roland Gutierrez, Texas
Delegate Nadarius Clark, Virginia
Delegate Cia Price, Virginia
Representative Liz Berry, Washington
Representative Deb Andraca, Wisconsin
Representative Shelia Stubbs, Wisconsin