John, did you see Rob's note?

The NRA is using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to pursue their guns
everywhere agenda and boost gun sales.

[ [link removed] ]Sign our petition urging the Trump administration to put public safety
over NRA greed and extremism during this national crisis.

Sarah Trumble
Senior Director of Federal Affairs
Everytown for Gun Safety

---------- Forwarded Message ----------
From: Rob Wilcox, Everytown for Gun Safety
Date: Monday, March 30, 2020
Subject: Tell the Trump administration: Gun shops are not essential
businesses

[ [link removed] ]Everytown for Gun Safety

John–

With most of America experiencing some form of shutdown, all but the most
essential businesses have had to close down. Now the NRA and the gun
makers are fighting to make sure gun shops stay open no matter what.

In a new low, the NRA and its allies have pressured the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) to consider gun shops essential businesses. It's
shameful that the Trump administration has decided to deem gun dealers and
manufacturers as essential as police, first responders, hospital workers,
and other workers who are risking everything to save lives during this
pandemic.

[ [link removed] ]SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Trump's DHS that gun shops are not essential
businesses.

[ [link removed] ]ADD YOUR NAME

During the COVID-19 crisis, the NRA has been engaged in reckless
fear-mongering. It has been reported that gun sales have been going way
up, along with the stock prices of the two publicly traded gun companies.
A flood of guns at this precarious moment compounds the risks of death and
serious injury during this incredibly stressful time. Economic declines
are a major driver of suicides and domestic violence. And with many people
forced to stay home, domestic violence situations can become even more
dangerous. Cities across the country are already seeing dramatic spikes in
domestic violence calls. When a firearm is present in a domestic violence
situation, women are five times more likely to be killed.

This is just one more example of the gun lobby's penchant for using
national crises as an excuse to grow corporate profits and scare people
into buying more guns. We can't let the NRA's greed and extremist rhetoric
prevail in this time of crisis.

[ [link removed] ]Tell DHS to do the right thing and not knuckle under to NRA and gun
industry pressure.

Thanks for all you do,

Rob Wilcox
Deputy Director of Policy and Strategy
Everytown for Gun Safety


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