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Gun Safety
Support school safety and gun violence prevention measures. Take action now to make sure state and federal laws prevent gun violence and keep our students safe.
Children Deserve To Be Safe And Free From Gun Violence
With effective policies in place that ensure firearms are used safely and legally, we can prevent tragedies. Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund is working to expand background checks on all firearm sales, pass temporary transfer orders, create secure storage laws, limit high-capacity magazines, and institute high-capacity magazine limits. These policy initiatives, in addition to expanding access to violence prevention programs, can ensure more children are safe from violence.
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
In 2022, Sandy Hook Promise worked with leaders in the U.S. Senate to write and pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, an historic step for gun violence prevention. Together, we ended nearly 28 years of inaction around this critical issue.
Sixty-five senators in total voted to pass this bill, making this an exceptional bipartisan agreement. The next day, the House of Representatives swiftly passed it with bipartisan support as well, and it was signed into law on June 25, 2022.
Current Issues
Background Checks
Expanded Background Checks are one of the most proven policies to prevent gun violence. Running a background check before a firearm purchase helps identify people who are prohibited by federal law from owning them, such as convicted felons and domestic abusers — and takes less than two minutes.
Temporary Transfer Orders
Temporary Transfer Orders empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence and gun-related suicides by petitioning a court to temporarily separate someone who is in crisis from their firearms. These are civil (not criminal) proceedings and help prevent suicide and gun-related violence while protecting an individual’s 2nd Amendment rights.
Add your name to ask Congress to support Temporary Transfer Orders.
High-Capacity Magazine Limits
Semi-automatic firearms are intended to fire multiple rounds in quick succession — killing people quickly with little effort. They can be used with detachable magazines that can fire more than 10 rounds of ammunition, rapidly and repeatedly without reloading, increasing the potential for them to harm more people in a short period of time. These weapons were primarily designed for use in war and battlefields. But because there’s no federal restriction on the sale of these weapons, civilians have been able to purchase semi-automatic weapons to carry out some of our nation’s deadliest mass shootings.
Secure Storage of Firearms
Millions of children in the U.S. live in homes in which at least one firearm is stored both loaded and unlocked. The secure storage of firearms limits access to firearms by unauthorized users and protects young people from both accidental and intentional gun violence.
Ghost Guns
Ghost guns refer to homemade firearms that are created by assembling pieces, sold together in a kit or separately, to create a fully functioning firearm. Sold without background checks and serial numbers — unlike firearms sold by licensed manufacturers or importers — they’re almost impossible to trace. Ghost guns are especially dangerous because they are completely accessible to people who are legally prohibited from purchasing firearms, including minors.
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