Washington, D.C. - Newly released data show that Pennsylvania ranks #1 in the nation for the most guns “missing” from licensed gun shops with no record of sale, with more than 6,000 guns missing from Pennsylvania gun shops over three years.  Pennsylvania gun dealers alone accounted for 10% of all guns reported “missing” from the nation’s gun shops from 2008 to 2010.Firearms that leave gun shops without records of sale are frequently trafficked by gun traffickers and prized by criminals because the guns have no record of sale and are virtually untraceable.  Corrupt gun dealers also attempt to disguise illegal ...read the full release

Washington, DC -- The Brady Center filed a brief today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii urging the court to dismiss a challenge to Hawaii’s strong gun laws restricting the carrying of loaded guns in public.“Hawaii’s strong gun laws protect families from the severe danger of loaded guns in public,” said Jonathan Lowy, Director of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project.  “We urge the court to follow more than a dozen other courts around the nation in recognizing that there is no right to carry loaded guns in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.”The lawsuit, Baker v. ...read the full release

Victim Carolyn Tuft sends a message about her five years of struggle Washington, D.C. – Five years ago on Sunday, February 12, a teen with a pistol-grip shotgun devastated families and the community of Salt Lake City. Carolyn Tuft's family was one of those shattered by the gunfire. Carolyn was shot and so was her 15-year-old daughter Kirsten, who died of the injuries. In the years since that horrible day, Brady Center lawyers have represented Carolyn in court, seeking justice against the pawn shop that illegally sold the gun to gunman Suleman Talovic, 18 at the time. Last summer a ...read the full release

Washington, D.C. – The Board of Trustees of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center today announced that Dan Gross, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Center to Prevent Youth Violence (formerly PAX), has been elected the new President of the nation’s largest gun violence prevention organizations.    Gross brings to the Brady organizations a legacy of trailblazing, innovative work, and a passion for reducing gun deaths and injuries.  Since 1998, the Center to Prevent Youth Violence has created high impact public health and safety campaigns designed to lower  the incidence of gun deaths and injuries ...read the full release

Washington, DC -- U.S. District Court Judge Sue E. Myerscough in Springfield, Illinois has dismissed a gun lobby challenge to Illinois law prohibiting the carrying of loaded guns in public.  The Brady Center filed an amicus brief defending the Illinois law and citing numerous studies highlighting the severe danger posed by the carrying of loaded guns in public.  The ruling was issued late Friday.“We are pleased that yet another court has rejected the gun lobby’s claim that the Second Amendment bars communities from keeping loaded guns off their streets,” said Jonathan Lowy, Director of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project.  ...read the full release

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Brady Campaign Acting President Dennis Henigan today issued the following statement in response to U. S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ announcement that she would resign her seat in Congress this week. "We understand but are deeply saddened by the news that Rep. Giffords has decided to resign her seat in Congress because of the demands of her continued rehabilitation from the gunshot wound she suffered a year ago in Tucson.  Congress and the American people now have lost the service of another devoted public servant because of gun violence.  It is ...read the full release

Washington, DC -- U.S. District Court Judge Sam Cummings in Lubbock, Texas today dismissed the National Rifle Association’s challenge to a Texas law prohibiting teens and young adults 18-20 years old from carrying concealed weapons in public, in the case Jennings v. McCraw. The Brady Center filed an amicus brief defending the Texas law.  The Student Government and Graduate Student Assembly of the University of Texas at Austin joined the Brady Center on the brief on behalf of the campus’ 62,000 students, along with the Texas organizations Mothers Against Teen Violence, the Texas Chapters of the Brady Campaign, and Students for ...read the full release

Washington, DC -- In a string of legal victories for gun control, late last week courts rejected three gun lobby lawsuits challenging laws restricting the public carrying of guns in California and New Jersey and challenging a federal rule to curb gun trafficking along the Mexico border. In all three cases, courts sided with arguments presented in legal briefs by the Brady Center that the contested gun laws were lawful and constitutional.  “The gun lobby makes its priorities clear by filing lawsuit after lawsuit to strike down sensible gun laws, instead of working to keep guns off our streets and assisting ...read the full release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Brady Campaign announced today that Yoko Ono Lennon has joined the Too Many Victims Campaign and has issued a simple message of peace to all standing up to light a candle on Sunday, the first anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona:"Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Family of Peace,I will light a candle and think of the fact that no matter where we are, we are together in international unity. I love you!Yoko Ono Lennon"Yoko Ono Lennon lost her husband, John Lennon, to gun violence on December 8, 1980.  She continues to encourage ...read the full release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Brady Campaign today announced that leaders and victim advocates across the nation – from Chicago to Austin; Santa Barbara to Harlem; Chattanooga to Detroit, Norfolk to Vancouver, and everywhere in between - have organized more than 60 vigils in 22 states and the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Tucson shootings and gun violence victims across the nation. These leaders and the victims they represent are a cross-section of America in every dimension, reflecting the reality that preventable gun violence impacts all American communities.Chicago, IL will host no fewer than five vigils, held ...read the full release