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This isn’t a joke, John – multiple grocery stores in the United States have installed ammunition vending machines.
Sandwiched between vending machines selling candy and Mountain Dew is a machine that will dole out bullets with the press of a button.
This is the dangerous gun lobby agenda at its worst, making ammunition readily available in grocery stores in Alabama, Texas, and Oklahoma, while our nation's gun violence epidemic continues to worsen. Putting ammunition vending machines in grocery stores is the opposite direction that our country should be headed.
The decision to put vending machines full of bullets in grocery stores makes it recklessly easy to immediately purchase deadly ammunition without needed human interaction or oversight. While ludicrous on its own, it also has far-reaching implications: This is happening in a country where gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens; where 117 people die from gun violence every single day; where we are in desperate need of more common-sense gun laws to close loopholes and save lives.
Easier access to bullets and weapons is the last thing our country needs.
Team ENOUGH, Brady’s youth-led initiative, was founded in the aftermath of the deadly 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. The Executive Council is the governing body of Team ENOUGH that helps shape its goals and programs to free America from gun violence.
Members of the Executive Council will have the opportunity to:
✅ Learn from subject matter experts at Brady and in the gun violence prevention movement.
✅ Elevate fellow youth voices through one-of-a-kind programs and platforms, like our national Youth Advocacy Training Program.
✅ Speak on behalf of Team ENOUGH on national platforms.
✅Join a network of like-minded youth leaders with impressive backgrounds and experiences in social justice causes.
We at Brady are proud to feature supporters of our life-saving mission to free America from gun violence. This week, that’s Ruth Borenstein, an active donor, Brady California’s legislative & policy chair, and the co-lead of Brady San Francisco.
Ruth was determined to take action on gun violence in her community in the wake of the deadly mass shooting in Parkland, FL. Once she found out that a state-owned property hosted gun shows multiple times a year, she wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle calling for a stop to gun sales at the Cow Palace gun show. Her advocacy continued, speaking out at local board meetings, and with the help of fellow Brady supporters, gun shows are no longer held on the property.
While Ruth has seen the positive impact of her advocacy, she still remains frustrated about the power and influence of the NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) over politicians and the barrier this creates to meaningful reform. However, Ruth stays hopeful through her work with the younger generation that has stepped up in the gun violence prevention movement.
