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Combating Crime Guns


Visit the Gun Store Transparency Project

We're exposing never-before-released federal records that identify gun stores cited for breaking the law, potentially fueling the source of crime guns in America. Enter a zip code and find cited violations among gun stores in your area and across the country.

Reducing gun violence and addressing racial injustice on the most impacted communities by stopping the flow of crime guns.

Our Combating Crime Guns Initiative works to shift the burden of gun violence from the shooters to the suppliers of crime guns, including irresponsible gun industry actors who prioritize profit over public safety.

Brady, under the leadership of President Kris Brown, is the only national organization with a dedicated program focused on combating crime guns, recognizing the critical role of racial justice in ending America’s gun violence epidemic.

Everyday gun violence in communities across the United States, fueled by irresponsible and unlawful gun sales by gun dealers, has a disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities and is a major contributor to racial inequality in America.

Many local and national programs work tirelessly to intervene in and prevent violence through direct services, including hospital-based services, violence interruption programs, increased access to education, after-school programs, and job training. These efforts aim to decrease the demand for guns and drive related declines in urban homicide. In addition to this important work, we must also address the supply of illegal guns that flood into communities and drive urban homicide.

Despite the best efforts of its workforce, ATF is unable to provide meaningful oversight of the gun industry. The ATF is chronically underfunded and constrained by acts of Congress that were designed by gun lobby-backed politicians. While Brady continues its efforts to reform the ATF to ensure it has the resources and authority to provide meaningful oversight, we simply cannot wait.

Addressing the supply-side of gun violence is an issue of racial justice.

At Brady, we believe that where you live should not determine if you live and that the color of your skin should not dictate your life expectancy. Yet, tragically, today it does. Half of all American homicides occur in just 127 cities and towns containing only a quarter of the population. Black children are 10 times more likely to be shot than white children. The homicide rate for Black men is 30.7 per 100,000, while for white men it is 2.4 per 100,000 nationwide.

>> Visit our Gun Store Transparency Project at GunStoreTransparency.org to find gun dealers that have been cited by the ATF for violations in your community and across the country.

TAKE ACTION

Tell your legislators to address the supply of illegal guns!

A comprehensive approach to ending gun violence must address the supply-side — specifically the gun industry and dealers who are contributing to and profiting from gun violence. Tell your legislator to review proven strategies to restrict the flow of crime guns into the communities most impacted and take action to address the supply of illegal guns.