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Everytown Announces New Grant Opportunity to Advance Gun Violence Prevention Research Using AI-Powered “EveryShot” Database 01.15.26NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund today launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a new grant program inviting scholars in the gun violence prevention research field to leverage EveryShot, a first-of-its-kind, near real-time AI tool that… Continue
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Everytown Releases 2026 State Gun Law Rankings, Providing Roadmap for Saving 262,000 Lives from Gun Violence Over the Next Decade
Rankings Make Clear That the Strength of a State’s Gun Laws Influence its Rates of Gun Deaths, Provide Path for Improvements in Public Safety NEW…
Everytown Releases Annual Crime Gun Recovery Report, Highlighting Spike in Glock Pistol Recoveries, Rise in 3D-Printed Firearms and Machine Gun Conversion Devices
Recoveries of Polymer80 Ghost Guns Dropped 43% Since 2022 Following Litigation, Regulation, and Grassroots Accountability Efforts Led by Everytown Just Four Manufacturers – Glock, Taurus,…
New Everytown Report Exposes How Gun Dealers Are Driving, and Profiting From, America’s Illegal Gun Trafficking Crisis
New Analysis Projects Over 1.27 Million Guns Illegally Trafficked Between 2017-2026, Fueling Violence While Generating Nearly $700 Million in Revenue for Dealers Investigation Finds Vast…
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND AWARDS $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT TO THE BUILD PROGRAM TO EXPAND STREET OUTREACH AND GANG INTERVENTION IN LOS ANGELES
Amid DOJ Funding Cuts, Everytown Invests in Los Angeles’ Community Violence Intervention Programs As Homicides Decline In Cities Due to CVI, Including Los Angeles LOS…
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND AWARDS $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT TO YOUTH ALIVE! TO STRENGTHEN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND HOSPITAL-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION IN OAKLAND
Everytown Reinvests In Oakland’s Pioneering CVI Organization Amid DOJ Cuts OAKLAND, Cal. — Today, the Everytown Community Safety Fund, a program of Everytown for Gun…
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND AWARDS $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT TO MUSC TURNING THE TIDE TO STRENGTHEN HOSPITAL-BASED INTERVENTION IN CHARLESTON
Everytown Reinvests In Charleston’s Community-Led Intervention Program Amid DOJ Cuts And As Homicides Decline In Cities Sustaining CVI, Including Charleston CHARLESTON, SC — Today, the…
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND AWARDS $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT TO CIRCLE OF BROTHERHOOD TO EXPAND STREET OUTREACH AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT IN MIAMI
Everytown Reinvests In Miami’s Trusted CVI Program Amid DOJ Funding Cuts Homicide Rates in Areas Serviced By Circle of Brotherhood Have Seen Drops in…
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND AWARDS $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT TO UAMS PROJECT HEAL TO STRENGTHEN ARKANSAS’S FIRST HOSPITAL-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Everytown Invests In Little Rock’s Hospital-Based Program Amid DOJ Cuts LITTLE ROCK, AR — Today, the Everytown Community Safety Fund, a program of Everytown for…
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND AWARDS $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT TO ATX PEACE/LIFE ANEW TO EXPAND STREET OUTREACH AND CRISIS RESPONSE IN AUSTIN
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND AWARDS $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT TO ATX PEACE/LIFE ANEW TO EXPAND STREET OUTREACH AND CRISIS RESPONSE IN AUSTIN Everytown Invests In Austin’s…
LIVING CLASSROOMS IN BALTIMORE AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO STRENGTHEN STREET OUTREACH AND CRISIS RESPONSE
Everytown Invests In Baltimore’s CVI Network, Which Has Been Critical in Reducing Crime in the City; DOJ Cuts Threaten Progress BALTIMORE — Today, the Everytown…
TRAUMA VICTIM ADVOCACY PROGRAM AT TEMPLE HEALTH AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO EXPAND HOSPITAL-BASED SERVICES FOR SURVIVORS
Everytown Reinvests In Philadelphia’s Community-Led Intervention Program Amid DOJ Cuts And As Homicides Decline In Cities Sustaining CVI, Including Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA — Today, the Everytown…
KINGS AGAINST VIOLENCE INITIATIVE IN BROOKLYN AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO EXPAND HOSPITAL-BASED AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Everytown Reinvests In Brooklyn’s Community-Led Intervention Program Amid DOJ Cuts And As Homicides Decline In Cities Sustaining CVI, Including New York BROOKLYN, NY — Today,…
YAAY ME INC. IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO STRENGTHEN YOUTH MENTORSHIP AND PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAMS
Everytown Reinvests In D.C.’S Community-Led Intervention Program Amid DOJ Cuts And As Homicides Decline In Cities Sustaining CVI, Including Washington D.C. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today,…
YOUTURN IN OMAHA AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO EXPAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND HOSPITAL-BASED INTERVENTION
Everytown Reinvests In Omaha’s Growing CVI Work Amid DOJ Funding Cuts OMAHA, Neb. — Today, the Everytown Community Safety Fund, a program of Everytown for…
GRASP IN DENVER AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO EXPAND CREDIBLE MESSENGER STREET OUTREACH
Everytown Reinvests In Denver’s Peer-Led Gang Intervention And Street Outreach Program Amid DOJ Cuts DENVER, CO — Today, the Everytown Community Safety Fund, a program…
414 LIFE IN MILWAUKEE AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO SUSTAIN HOSPITAL-BASED INTERVENTION AND STREET OUTREACH
Amid DOJ Funding Cuts, Everytown Invests In Madison’s Community Violence Intervention Programs MILWAUKEE, WI — Today, the Everytown Community Safety Fund, a program of Everytown…
FOCUSED INTERRUPTION IN MADISON AWARDED $100,000 SUPPORT GRANT FROM EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND TO CONTINUE LIFE-SAVING VIOLENCE INTERRUPTION WORK
Amid DOJ Funding Cuts, Everytown Invests in Madison’s Community Violence Intervention Programs As Homicides Decline In Cities Due to CVI, Including Madison MADISON, WI —…
EVERYTOWN COMMUNITY SAFETY FUND ANNOUNCES $2.67 MILLION IN GRANTS TO 44 COMMUNITY-BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS
Amid DOJ Cuts, Community-Led Programs Are Helping Drive Reductions in Gun Violence in Cities Across the Country; Mayors Across the Nation Are Citing CVI Organizations…
New Everytown Report Finds Defensive Gun Use is Rare and Ineffective, Debunking Gun Lobby Myth
Everytown’s New Analysis Shows Defensive Gun Use Occurs in Fewer Than 1% of All Personal and Property Crime in the United States – 96% Less…
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Calls on Ruger to Immediately Cease the Manufacture and Sale of RXM Pistol, Which Evidence Suggests Can Be Easily Converted Into an Illegal Machine Gun
Open Letter to Ruger Comes Just Days After Reports that Glock Will Discontinue Existing Product Line, Following Years of Pressure from Everytown to Modify Its…
Following Years of Pressure from Everytown to Modify Its Pistols to Not Accept “Glock Switches,” Glock to Discontinue Existing Product Line
Company Faces Sea of Liability and Closed Markets As California Recently Signed First-in-the-Nation Bill Taking on DIY Machine Guns; New York Passed Related Bill in…
New Everytown Report Reveals How Gun Makers Use Tax-Payer Funded Military Contracts to Produce and Market Weapons of War to Civilians
NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund today released a new report, entitled Turning Our Streets Into War Zones, which reveals how…
Everytown to Convene Policymakers, Law Enforcement, Academics, Private Sector Leaders at Summit to Tackle Dangers of 3D-Printed Firearms Amidst Increase in Recoveries
New Everytown Analysis Found 1,000% Surge in 3D-Printed Firearm Recoveries Across 20 Major Cities Manhattan District Attorney Bragg Calls On 3D-Printing Companies To Address Proliferation…
New Everytown Report Confirms Arming Teachers is Not Effective for Preventing School Shootings
Arming Teachers Can Heighten Risks of Unintentional Shootings, Escalate Violence, and Deepen Classroom Inequities with No Evidence of Protective Benefits, According to New Report Case…
New Everytown Report Finds Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide with a Gun Claims the Lives of 19 Women Each Month
States With Weakest Gun Safety Laws Had Three Times the Rate of Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide Than States With Strongest Gun Safety Laws October Marks Domestic…
AS STUDENTS HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL, SMART WEEK RETURNS IN NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT SECURE GUN STORAGE
Last School Year Saw a 21% Decrease in Incidents of Gunfire on School Grounds NEW YORK – Today, Be SMART, a program of Everytown for…
Everytown for Gun Safety Releases Investigation into YouTube’s New Efforts to Stop Gun Sales
WASHINGTON — Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund released a new report looking into changes made by YouTube after the company started to…
‘Shoot First’ Laws Lead to Increase in Violence, Costing Taxpayers Millions Annually, According to New Everytown Report
NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund today released a new report confirming Shoot First laws – also known as Stand Your…
New Everytown Report Highlights Urgent Policy Actions Needed to Combat 3D-Printed Guns
WASHINGTON — Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund today released a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive white paper highlighting the dangers of 3D-printed guns and putting forward policy…
Everytown Expresses Concerns with DOJ Plans to Establish Process to Restore Firearms Access for Felons and Domestic Abusers
WASHINGTON — Today, Everytown for Gun Safety submitted a comment letter expressing deep concerns with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) hazardous effort to allow…
NEW REPORT: Despite Major Public Safety Risks, Gun Industry is Doubling Down on Efforts to Deregulate Silencers
Last Month, the House of Representatives Passed a Reconciliation Bill Making it Easier to Own Silencers WASHINGTON — Today, The Smoking Gun, an Everytown for…
11TH ANNUAL NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY AND WEAR ORANGE CAMPAIGN BEGINS TODAY AS PART OF NATIONWIDE EFFORT DEMANDING AN END TO AMERICA’S GUN VIOLENCE CRISIS
Gun Safety Advocates, Survivors of Gun Violence, Elected Officials and More to Gather At More Than 600 Events in Recognition of Wear Orange Across All…
Be SMART Program Celebrates 10 Years of Life-Saving Work
One Decade In, Be SMART Has Grown to Drive Hundreds of Initiatives with Law Enforcement, Public Health, and More to Promote Secure Gun Storage Nationwide…
NEW REPORT: How Smith & Wesson Almost Lost its License to Make Guns
WASHINGTON — Today, The Smoking Gun, an Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund resource dedicated to exposing the gun industry’s role in our gun violence…
NEW REPORT: How the NRA Helped Sell Dangerously Flawed Firearms
The NRA Has Published Ads, Written Positive Reviews, and Even Given Awards to Defective and Recalled Firearms WASHINGTON — Today, The Smoking Gun, an Everytown for…
NEW REPORT: Policy Ended by Trump Shuttered Dangerous Gun Dealers
WASHINGTON — Today, The Smoking Gun — an Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund resource dedicated to exposing the gun industry’s role in our gun…
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Celebrates Theatrical Release of “MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE”
Feature-Length Dark Comedy Drama Boasts An A-List Cast Including Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Natalie Morales Produced by NFL Star Travis Kelce, Film…
New Everytown Analysis Found 59% Increase in Extreme Risk Protection Law Usage in 2023
Extreme Risk Laws are Shown to Prevent Deadly Tragedies, Including Mass Shootings, Deaths by Firearm Suicide NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund…
The Gun Industry Heads to Vegas — Here’s What You Need to Know about the SHOT Show
Today, the gun industry landed in Las Vegas for the annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, the largest trade show of its kind for…
Everytown for Gun Safety Releases 2025 State Gun Law Rankings, Providing Legislative Roadmap for Saving 299,000 Lives from Gun Violence Over the Next Decade
Rankings Make Clear That the Strength of a State’s Gun Law Influences its Rates of Gun Deaths, Provide Guidelines for Improvements in Public Safety States…
New Everytown Report Finds Someone Was Wounded or Killed in a Road Rage Shooting Every 18 Hours on Average in 2023
As Americans Take to the Road for the Holidays, New Report Sheds Light on Road Rage Shooting Rates and Preventative Measures States with Permitless Carry…
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Awards $70,000 To Seven Local and State Domestic Violence Prevention Organizations To Address Critical Intersection Between Guns and Domestic Violence
Everytown Has Provided More than $500,000 to 57 Domestic Violence Organizations in 31 States and Washington D.C. Since 2020 Every Month, an Average of 76…
New Everytown Report: More Than 70 Percent of Homicides of Transgender People Involve a Firearm, with Disproportionate Impacts on Black Trans Women
To Commemorate Trans Day of Remembrance, New Report Analyzes Hundreds of Homicides of Trans People to Help Inform Gun Violence Prevention Policy, Educate Around this…
Everytown Releases New Report Highlighting How Weak Gun Store Security Measures Fuel the Illegal Firearms Market
As Gun Stores Report an Average of Five Incidents of Theft or Loss Per Day, New ‘Soft Targets’ Investigation Sheds Light on the Devastating Consequences…
Be SMART and Collaboraction Partner on PSAs to Promote Secure Gun Storage, with support from Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation, Englewood Community Action Council, Mothers & Men Against Senseless Killing (MASK), Sacred Ground Ministries, and Chicago Youth Boxing Club (Little Village)
CHICAGO — Today, Be SMART, a program of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, and Collaboraction, a local social impact theater and media company in…
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Releases New Report Highlighting Gun Industry Opposition to Microstamping, an Effective Crime-Solving Tool
Today, The Smoking Gun — an Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund resource dedicated to exposing the gun industry’s role in our gun violence epidemic…
Incidents of Gun Violence on School Grounds in 2024 Officially Surpasses Total Rates from 2023
As of September 30, 2024, the number of gun-related incidents on school grounds for this year has officially outpaced the total number of incidents that…