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.

This story courtesy of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories from the project.

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    • 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.”

  1. 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.”

  2. 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

  3. 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.

    • Fundraising/money laundering if nothing else with how some of the pending court cases could go for them.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

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