Friend,

Imagine if anyone could come into your state carrying a loaded weapon in public – regardless of your existing state laws. 

Right now, NRA-backed lawmakers are ignoring the government shutdown, making backdoor deals to get concealed carry reciprocity bills passed. Trump has promised to sign these bills into law and it would mean anyone with a concealed carry permit could travel to all 50 states with their concealed weapon regardless of that state’s law on concealed carry.

These laws will put all of our lives on the line and we can’t let it happen. Friend, I’m counting on you to send an urgent message to Congress and tell lawmakers to say NO to concealed carry reciprocity.

Trump campaigned on the promise to sign a "national permitless concealed carry" law. In many cases, this means individuals can carry loaded weapons with reckless abandon, and without any requirements for training, proficiency or knowledge that this individual has ever so much as fired a weapon. Concealed carry is proven to increase gun violence — in some cases by as much as 15%.

Friend, we are all less safe when anyone could be carrying a loaded firearm.

The truth is that the NRA's guns everywhere agenda is not what the American people want. The majority of Americans support bipartisan, common-sense gun safety laws that save lives. I'm asking gun violence prevention activists to speak out against deadly national permitless concealed carry NOW. Will you send a message to Congress now and make it undeniably clear: We want more lives saved, not more people carrying concealed weapons! 

Thanks for being in this fight with us, friend.

Kris Brown

Brady President