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Friend,

With the holiday season approaching, I’m very excited to go home and see my parents, eat a big Thanksgiving meal, and watch the Macy’s Day Parade — the best part of the Thanksgiving holiday in my opinion.

But being home in Texas also reminds me that my state has among the highest rates of unintentional shootings by children. Gun deaths among Texas teens have more than doubled in a decade.
That’s why today I want to talk about a lesson that is central to Brady’s mission, a lesson that my dad instilled in me when I was a kid: the importance of secure firearm storage — which means storing guns locked, unloaded, and away from ammunition.

I’m so grateful for my dad’s safety around firearms because it’s more important than ever — especially during the holiday season. Unintentional shootings increase dramatically around the holidays, with two of the highest weeks of unintentional shootings being the weeks around Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.

We see this spike for a few reasons. People are in closer proximity to unsecured firearms while at home and visiting the homes of friends and family, and often have an increase in alcohol consumption and firearm purchasing. With 4.6 million children living in homes with unlocked and loaded firearms, the potential for tragedies like an unintentional shooting are high.

Kids are curious and will find everything when they are home for the holidays, peeking around the house while their parents cook or searching for presents. In fact, I once found one of my dad’s firearm safes when I was a child because I was looking for my Christmas presents.

The fact that my dad’s gun was locked up ensured that I was safe that day. But if he hadn’t securely stored his guns, I could have become one of the eight kids who are unintentionally shot or injured every day in an incident of family fire — a shooting that results from someone misusing an unsecured firearm from the home.

So, with the holiday season at our doorstep, we should prepare to have frank conversations about secure firearm storage. If just 20 percent of households with firearms practiced safe storage, we could prevent one-third of youth gun suicides and unintentional shooting deaths.

This holiday season, I urge you to follow in my dad’s footsteps and have your own conversations around secure firearm storage, especially before you go over to a friend or relative’s house. If you need help starting this important conversation, check out our tips and how to discuss firearm safety around the holidays. [[link removed]]

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In solidarity,
Cat Mouer
Federal Policy Manager, Brady

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Me and my mom and dad

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TAKE ACTION: Demand Answers From Attorney General Pam Bondi

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) is the only federal agency tasked with overseeing the gun industry. We need your help to stop the Trump administration from decimating this essential agency.

This week, over 70 members of Congress signed onto a letter demanding answers on how the Trump administration plans to protect us from gun violence with these sweeping agent reassignments and staff reductions. And now, you can join them.

Under the Trump administration's proposed budget, ATF stands to lose at least 60 percent of its investigators. These changes severely undermine efforts to address gun crime and leave just a handful of inspectors to oversee the nation's 75,000 gun dealers.

With these new cuts, it would now take at least 30 years for most gun dealers to be inspected. This would mean decades-long gaps in basic compliance inspections, causing communities to be flooded with trafficked and illegal weapons, and we will pay the price with our lives.

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Honoring the Victims of Club Q with Action

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This week marked three years since the deadly, hate-filled shooting at Club-Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, CO.

Patrons entered Club Q as they did any other weekend, ready for a fun night out in a space designed to feel safe and affirming. But instead of love, clubgoers were met with hatred and violence when a gunman killed five people and injured more than 20 others.

The tragedy at Club Q was a horrible reminder that hate is far more deadly when coupled with easy access to firearms. Every year, over 10,000 people are victims of a hate crime involving a firearm. LGBT people are more than two times as likely to be victims of gun violence as their straight and cisgender peers. Enough is ENOUGH.

In honor of the victims of Club Q, we are calling on Congress to pass the Disarm Hate Act, which would prevent any person who has been convicted of a hate crime misdemeanor from purchasing a firearm. Will you please join us in urging Congress to disarm hate? [[link removed]]

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URGE YOUTH: Apply for the Team ENOUGH Youth Advocacy Training Program!

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Do you know a young person looking to take ACTION against gun violence in their community? Then we have an opportunity for you to share with them.

Team ENOUGH, Brady’s youth-led initiative, just opened applications for its Youth Advocacy Training Program in Florida and Virginia! Our program is the only national, youth-led group that trains and mobilizes young people to meet with lawmakers and push for critical gun reform measures.

This work is more important now than ever before. By joining the program, youth activists will learn how to hold the line for gun violence prevention against the Trump administration and fight to pass state-level gun violence prevention laws. No previous experience is needed to apply!

Will you consider sharing our application with a young person (ages 13-26) and encourage them to apply today? With gun violence as the leading cause of death for American youth, it’s vital for lawmakers to hear directly from young people on this issue. [[link removed]]

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Brady’s Gun Store Transparency Project Wins an Anthem Award

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EXCITING NEWS: This week, Brady’s Gun Store Transparency Project won a Silver Anthem Award [[link removed]] for its innovative use of data to support public health!

The Gun Store Transparency Project is the largest searchable database of ATF inspection reports ever released to the public. It shows gun stores across the country that have been cited for violating the law, holding the gun industry accountable, and allowing community members to know if there is a rogue gun dealer in their neighborhood.

The Gun Store Transparency Project ensures the American public is no longer kept in the dark about businesses that contribute to gun violence in their communities — and whether federal authorities are failing to hold them accountable. Check out the award-winning Gun Store Transparency Project today! [[link removed]]

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