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Suicide is preventable - Visit Minutes Matter, a project of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence

North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Education Fund

Reclaim Wisconsin - Sign Pledge to Keep loaded, hidden guns out of our shops and restaurants.

WAVE Educational Fund

Petition to Support Criminal Background Checks

Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence

Heeding God’s Call

Ceasefire New Jersey

States United to Prevent Gun Violence


States United to Prevent Gun Violence (SUPGV) was founded in 1999 by the state gun violence prevention groups themselves. SUPGV is the only organization representing all state gvp groups and the only national organization consistently supporting gvp work at the state level.

We believe criminal background checks should be required on every gun sale and that licensing, registration, and training of gun owners is a major deterrent of gun violence. Families need ample resources to explain the risks and dangers of guns in the home. If they do choose to bring a gun into the home, gun owner responsibility should include safe storage and reporting lost and stolen firearms. We believe law makers should be making it harder to carry loaded, hidden guns in public, not easier.

Guns are the only consumer product not regulated for safety standards by a federal agency. We believe consumer protection safety standards should also apply to firearms and that gun design and distribution should be federally regulated. Comprehensive tracking of firearm injury and deaths (how, where, who is doing the shooting) is necessary to reduce gun violence.

We believe military weapons should be banned for civilian ownership and handgun purchases need to be limited to one a month to reduce gun trafficking. There also needs to be tighter regulations on the sellers and employees at retail gun dealers.

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News

February 20, 2012
Guns are the new bling in India, as Mark Magnier reports for The Times. Rising income, rising crime and memories of terrorism have made Indians more eager to pack a pistol: Government worker Deep Sidhu sits in his living room feeling the weight of...
February 20, 2012
Guns are the new bling in India, as Mark Magnier reports for The Times. Rising income, rising crime and memories of terrorism have made Indians more eager to pack a pistol: Government worker Deep Sidhu sits in his living room feeling the weight of...
February 19, 2012
Chuck Michel's strategy for crime-fighting rests on the element of surprise: Keep the bad guys guessing who's armed and who's not. "If 5% of the ducks could shoot back, you're not going to go duck hunting," said the Long Beach lawyer representing...

State Affiliate News

2/6/12 - Jeri Bonavia, Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, talks about Wisconsin's new concealed carry law.
1/8/12 - North Carolinians Against Gun Violence organized one of the over 60 Too Many Victims vigils held nationwide. The Brady Campaign spearheaded the event.
1/8/12 - Judi Richardson remembers her daughter, who died from complications of a gunshot injury, at vigil organized by Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence.
1/8/12 - Washington Ceasefire, Rep. Jim McDermott, and others held candles and observed a moment of silence to honor victims of gun violence
1/8/12 - CeasefirePA sponsored Too Many Victims vigils throughout Pennsylvania. View video taken at vigil in York.