Hi John,

My name is Shira and I’m part of the legal team here at Brady. I’m reaching out to you today because of a critical threat to our national safety:

Unregulated, untraceable, and unserialized ghost guns. 

Without regulation, these firearms do not require a background check, meaning anyone – including minors and prohibited purchasers – can get a kit online and assemble these deadly weapons at home.

The lack of regulation on ghost guns is exactly why they’ve become weapons of choice for criminals and their proliferation cannot be ignored. In 2017, law enforcement recovered 1,600 ghost guns. Merely four years later, 19,000 ghost guns were recovered. That’s a 1000% increase in ghost guns recovered from crimes, John.

That’s exactly why President Bident took executive action to clarify that ghost guns are real guns and should be regulated accordingly, but his life-saving action is under attack by the gun lobby and now the legality of the rule will be decided in the highest court in the land. 

Will you respond to Brady’s urgent poll right now and let us know where you stand:

In 2022, President Biden enacted executive actions to properly classify dangerous ghost guns as firearms, subjecting them to existing, common sense firearms regulations. But, to no one's surprise, the gun lobby immediately began a legal battle against the rule.

The gun lobby first took the case to a federal judge in Texas, who sided with the gun lobby and struck down the rule. The Justice Department appealed to the Fifth Circuit, a court dominated by Trump-appointees, which upheld the decision in Texas. Now, the Supreme Court has just announced that it will hear the case and we at Brady will fight with all we have to make sure this life-saving rule remains in effect. 

The gun lobby would rather let Americans die than allow firearm regulations to address our modern realities and Brady is fighting tooth and nail to stop them. Brady is leading the charge against the gun lobby, but we can’t win this fight alone. We need to show an outpouring of support for regulating these deadly ghost guns. That's why we're searching for 37 more activists from your area to speak out before midnight tonight. Please, John, answer our urgent poll now:

Ghost guns are a national threat to which we must respond – and that’s exactly what Brady is doing. We won’t stand down to the gun lobby or their deadly agenda. Your support helps us keep fighting. 

Thank you for taking action today, John.

Shira Feldman

Director of Constitutional Litigation, Brady