We need you in this fight.   Next week, the PA Senate Judiciary Committee is holding two days of hearings (Tuesday at 9:00 am and Wednesday at 1:00 pm) on “behavioral health, the second amendment, and other gun issues.” We’ve …

We need you in this fight.   Last night, 22 Senators, including our own Bob Casey, led by Sen. Chris Murphy, took the Senate floor to call for action on gun violence prevention.  The Senators demanded votes on background check…

We need you to help us fight back.  Yesterday, the PA Commonwealth Court issued a ruling that could open the floodgates to gun lobby lawsuits against PA cities. In a case involving several Harrisburg ordinances, including a re…

Victory Shortly after the horrific shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas in early August, CeaseFirePA received calls from our partners Guns Down and March for Our Lives.  Both organizations wanted to shine a ligh…

It's time for action. We watched  mass shootings unfold in Texas and Alabama this weekend, a toddler in Allentown shot himself with a gun he found at home, five people were killed and eight injured in Philly and one was injure…

Stand with us.  In an article about our efforts to get Senator Toomey to support SR 42, the Senate version of the background check bill that passed the House earlier this year with bipartisan support, Senator Toomey accuses Ce…

Huge News!       On Friday, Governor Wolf signed an Executive Order committing the resources and power of his administration to the fight against gun violence in PA.  He is creating a new Office of Violence Prevention…

We owe it to 6 officers to act.  Once again, a Pennsylvania city is terrorized by gun violence as the nation watches.  This time, Philadelphia police officers trying to serve a warrant came under attack by a heavily armed man …

As you know, in the wake of the horrific mass shootings last weekend in El Paso and Dayton, there have been calls for the U.S. Senate to return to D.C. and for the PA General Assembly to meet in a special session. While we'd love to see our legislators…

It's time for action. In the wake of mass shootings like our nation suffered in El Paso and Dayton, there are calls for action by the public. But it often seems as if our elected officials are numb to those calls. Now, some of…

Join us to honor the victims of gun violence. Following the tragic weekend of gun violence, Pennsylvanians are mourning the victims as well as rising up to take a stand against hate and all forms of gun violence. The clear con…

It's time to take action.   This weekend saw mass shootings in California, New York, and Pennsylvania. The victims and locations of these events look different.  But the trauma and pain that came from them are the same.   …

We need you in the fight. There have been lots of stories lately about the internal problems and power struggles at the NRA.   This new article in Rolling Stone offers a good summary of what’s been going on and a look at how…

We need you with us.  Last week’s legislative battle in Harrisburg taught us that we need to be hyper-vigilant. The gun lobby will stop at nothing to dismantle the progress we’ve made together. But to keep up this fight, we ne…

The Fight Continues. Thank you for your incredible advocacy efforts aimed at blocking SB 621, the bill to put more armed personnel in our schools. Unfortunately, the bill passed, and yesterday, Governor Wolf signed it.  We kno…

Ask the Governor to Veto SB 621 Friends, I know we have been emailing you a lot about SB 621, the bill that adds a new category of armed security in schools and that could potentially be manipulated to arm teachers. That bill…

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