Four families are left grieving their loved ones after a gunman armed with an assault weapon opened fire in a midtown Manhattan office building a few weeks ago.

Lives were taken and forever changed—and this massacre was totally preventable. Assault weapons have been used in nearly all of the deadliest mass shootings because they can kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.

That's why our movement is calling for a federal ban on assault weapons: because no civilian should have access to these weapons of war. Send a message urging your lawmakers to ban deadly assault weapons.

California volunteers are in the final stretch this legislative session, pushing to advance a bill to stop DIY machine guns. Right now, it's legal to buy pistols that anyone can easily convert into machine guns with just one simple step—adding a tiny piece of metal or plastic called a "Glock switch."

It's on California lawmakers to stop these deadly weapons and prevent mass shootings. So Moms Demand Action volunteers met with 15 key state senators this August to urge them to get the bill over the finish line!

On top of our volunteers showing up to the Capitol, gun safety advocates across the state have driven more than 100,000 email messages to lawmakers urging them to stop DIY machine guns.

Over the summer, 80 high school and 20 college student leaders from across the country spent one week on a college campus for an in-depth, in-person training. Students spent the week learning how to level up their organizing and leadership skills for our fight to end gun violence.

Read more about how Students Demand Action leaders spent their summer at the Summer Organizing Institute and how it helped them go back to school prepared to organize their classmates.

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Nearly 26,000 people die from gun suicide in America every year—an average of 71 people every day.

And the problem is getting worse: Over the past decade, the United States' firearm suicide rate has increased by more than 20 percent.

But these tragedies are preventable. One of the most effective life-saving interventions for someone in crisis is disrupting their access to a gun. And in the eight states with the strongest gun safety laws, firearm suicide rates decreased by four percent from 1999 to 2022.

Trump may have shut down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention on his first day in office, but our movement is making progress wherever we can—including at the state and local levels.

When Biden established the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in 2023, there was just one statewide office of gun violence prevention—now there are 15. There were just 20 local offices of violence prevention then—now there are 100. That's progress, and it's thanks to the hard work of our gun safety movement.

We'll need to get creative and use every lever at our disposal to end this deadly crisis. Thank you for being a part of our movement.