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- ABA Standing Committee on Gun Violence This Standing Committee focuses on reducing gun violence through education, activation, and legislation.
- ATF Online: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ATF recognizes the role that firearms play in violent crimes and pursues an integrated regulatory and enforcement strategy. Investigative priorities focus on armed violent offenders and career criminals, narcotics traffickers, narco-terrorists, violent gangs, and domestic and international arms traffickers. Sections 924(c) and (e) of Title 18 of the United States Code provide mandatory and enhanced sentencing guidelines for armed career criminals and narcotics traffickers as well as other dangerous armed criminals.
- The Center for Gun Policy & Research, Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research (JHCGPR) has achieved a national reputation for our high-quality research, analysis, and innovation to advance the prevention of gun violence.
- Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the nation’s leading policy organization dedicated to researching, writing, enacting, and defending proven laws and programs, is on a mission to save lives from gun violence by shifting culture, changing policies, and challenging injustice.
- University of Chicago Crime Lab The Crime Lab partners with civic and community leaders to design, test, and scale promising programs and policies to reduce crime and violence.
- The Violence Policy Center The Violence Policy Center (VPC) works to stop gun death and injury through research, education, advocacy, and collaboration.
- Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Jim and Sarah Brady accomplished the inconceivable by getting the bipartisan Brady Law passed in 1993. But there’s more work to be done. We know that ending America’s gun violence epidemic means accepting these truths: 1) Gun ownership demands responsibility; 2) Laws in existence must be upheld by those empowered to do that job; and 3) Gun violence is a uniquely American problem. Only when Americans unite and work together will it be solved.
- Armed with Reason This is a blog dedicated to academically refuting pro-gun myths, and providing a scholarly defense of gun control. The site is authored by Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes. We can be reached at armedwithreason@gmail.com.
- National Instant Criminal Background Check Systems (NICS). The NICS is all about saving lives and protecting people from harm—by not letting firearms fall into the wrong hands. It also ensures the timely transfer of firearms to eligible buyers.
- Coalition to Stop Gun Violence CSGV is a thought leader in the modern gun violence prevention movement. Drafting, passing, and implementing evidence-based legislation is our number one priority.
- Small Arms Survey Our main objective is to reduce the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons and their impacts. We generate policy-relevant research and analysis, and provide both resources (publications, podcasts and a wide range of relevant outputs) and services (training and capacity-building). The Small Arms Survey also manages five major global databases.
- Second Amendment Foundation "The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is dedicated to promoting a better understanding about our Constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, we carry on many educational and legal action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun control debate."
