New anti-gun group focused on state legislatures

By Lee Williams

(Photo-illustration from licensed Shutterstock account).by Lee WilliamsFive 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.

Source: The Gun Writer