New Anti-Gun Group
Focused on State Legislatures

SAF Investigative Journalism Project

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. .....