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Las Vegas Moms, Health Care Professionals, Veterans, Gun Owners, And Faith And Community Leaders Gather To Launch New Group That Unites Moms, Mayors And Millions Of Americans To End Gun Violence: 'Everytown for Gun Safety'

'Gun Sense Voter' Campaign to Turn Out One Million Gun Safety Voters in November and Beyond; Bloomberg Announces $50 Million Commitment To Fight Gun Violence

Everytown Board of Advisors Announced; First 'Scenes from Everytown: Stop the Violence' Video Released Today, Part of a Series on How Gun Violence Affects Everyday Americans; www.everytown.org


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LAS VEGAS, April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Almost a year after a minority of the U.S. Senate blocked legislation to require comprehensive gun background checks despite near-unanimous public support, a new organization launching today will unite millions of Americans who will work together to end gun violence and counter the Washington gun lobby: Everytown for Gun Safety.  Las Vegas moms, health care professionals, veterans, gun owners, and faith and community leaders gathered today at the Grant Sawyer Building to launch Everytown. 

At its center, the organization will house Mayors Against Illegal Guns, founded by former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and former Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a grassroots movement of moms that was founded the day after Newtown. Everytown will ask Americans to join the fight to reduce the gun violence that kills 86 Americans every day and affects every town – big cities and small towns alike.  This means continuing to press for change in Washington and moving beyond Congress to bring the fight for common-sense gun policies to state capitols, corporate boards, and state and federal elections – fields of play formerly occupied almost solely by the gun lobby.  Supporters of Everytown will support candidates and legislation that will save lives, donate to the group's efforts and take action to raise awareness for important issues like guns in schools, domestic violence, child access to guns, suicide and the other ways that gun violence affects all Americans.

"Almost a year and a half ago my mother was killed protecting her students at Sandy Hook Elementary School," said Erica Lafferty.  "In the months since, I've seen gun violence survivors and their families form a movement to make sure other families don't have to go through what we've endured.  Launching Everytown for Gun Safety is a critical step in that movement to end gun violence."

"Last year, Washington failed to listed to the 90% of Americans that supported common sense measures to keep guns out of the wrong hands," said Moms Demand Action Ambassador Linda Cavazos. "In the one year since, the movement that has brought Americans together to end gun violence has come a long way. Moms all across the country have called, emailed, and knocked on their legislators' doors--we've shown how passionate we are on this issue, and now we're going to turn that passion into votes."

Everytown also launched the 'Gun Sense Voter' campaign that, for the first time, will mobilize one million voters to support leaders and laws that promote gun safety.  Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, the group's advocacy arm, will also issue candidate questionnaires and announce candidate scorecards to guide its supporters and the public in state and federal elections in November.  The Action Fund will also form a separate, supporter-funded political action committee.

Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced in a New York Times article published today that he plans to spend at least $50 million this year to reduce gun violence through Everytown's educational and advocacy efforts and through personal expenditures.  The organization also announced today the formation of Everytown's Board of Advisors – a distinguished and diverse group of leaders and gun violence survivors: Art Acevedo, Tom Barrett, Stephen Barton, Michael R. Bloomberg, David Boren, Eli Broad, Warren Buffett, Gloria Chavez, David Chipman, Michael Coleman, Carlos Giménez, Roxanna Green, Nick Hanauer, Geoffrey Henry, Danny Jones, Ken Lerer, John Mack, Thomas Menino, Marc Morial, Mike Mullen, Michael Nutter, Annise Parker, Cleopatra Pendleton, Nathaniel Pendleton, Tom Ridge, Gilles Rousseau, Christy Salters Martin and Shannon Watts.

Everytown aims to grow its ranks to 2.5 million supporters this year, by addressing the many ways that gun violence touches Americans, including child access to guns, domestic violence, guns on campus and suicide. Today, Everytown's charitable affiliate, the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, released the first video in a series called "Scenes from Everytown: Stop the Violence."  The first video illustrates the dangers of child gun access and can be viewed here.   

Everytown will continue to press for change in Washington, including comprehensive background checks and enhanced protections for the victims of domestic violence.  At the same time, Everytown will pivot to mobilize voters in state electoral and legislative campaigns, along with a ballot initiative to require universal background checks in Washington State.  The group will post robust field staff in more than a dozen states, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

Since announcing their merger in December, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action have achieved a number of shared goals that will keep communities safer.  In March, Facebook announced that the company and its popular photo-sharing subsidiary Instagram would take significant steps to block potentially illegal firearm sales through their platforms, thanks to a month-long campaign that quickly drew more than 230,000 supporters.  In just the last month, the two groups helped pass vital legislation in Washington State that will keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers.  And in Travis County, Texas, Mayors and Moms worked together with local political leaders to effectively close the gun show loophole when Travis County commissioners refused to lease county property to gun show organizers unless they agreed to run background checks on their purchasers. 

In the year since a minority of Senators blocked the Manchin-Toomey amendment, the movement for common-sense gun laws has grown significantly.  Lawmakers passed critical laws in California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, and New York in 2013, and national polls continue to show an overwhelming majority of Americans support closing the loopholes in our background check system that allow criminals to buy guns online and at gun shows. In Colorado alone, their new comprehensive background check requirement has stopped more than 160 gun sales to prohibited purchasers.  Everytown – and its more than 1.5 million grassroots supporters – will move the discussion forward and fight for policies proven to save lives.

Other launch events were held in Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; St. Petersburg, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Concord, New Hampshire; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Austin, Texas and Seattle, Washington.

About Everytown for Gun Safety

Everytown for Gun Safety is a movement of Americans fighting for common-sense policies that will reduce gun violence and save lives.  Everytown is the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country with more than 1.5 million supporters including moms, mayors, survivors, and everyday Americans who are fighting for reforms that respect the Second Amendment and protect people.  At the core of Everytown are Mayors Against Illegal Guns, founded in 2006 by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a grassroots movement of American mothers founded on the day after Newtown.  Learn more at www.everytown.org and follow us @Everytown

CONTACT:
Jack Warner, [email protected]

SOURCE Everytown for Gun Safety

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