Great news from VA’s AG. With the very real possibility of federal interference, voter intimidation, and attempts to undermine election results, it’s reassuring to know that #VA is already prepared to protect its voters and defend our democracy on Election Day and beyond.

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Section will serve as affirmative voter protection arm of the OAG and enforce Virginia’s existing voting rights laws

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Political violence has no place in America. The proliferation of firearms in Trump’s “guns everywhere” America makes it even more terrifying . When threats drive people out of office, our democracy is in trouble. It’s a threat to every American’s right to be represented without fear/intimidation.

Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)

A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.

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Families in Erie #PA would usually be reminiscing about summer days on the lake and talking about the beginning of hockey season. Instead, they are facing the aftermath of a horrific mass shooting. No community should have its routine moments, its safety, or its future stolen by gun violence.

8 killed, including 2 young children, in Erie, Pa. shooting, authorities say

Authorities said those killed included a woman who was eight months pregnant and two young children.

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This is absolutely heart wrenching. 9 people shot and killed, including 2 children, in Erie #PA. As we await more information, please hold the families of the victims and the Erie community in your heart. May our leaders’ hearts be broken enough to act.

9 people killed, including 2 children, in mass shooting in northern Pennsylvania

Two women were found dead in the street, two children were killed, and the victim reportedly took their own life in a mass shooting in Erie, Pa.

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🚨 JUST IN: The ATF is allowing silencers, short-barreled rifles, and “sawed-off” shotguns to be bought or made without a background check nationwide, following a Texas judge’s ruling. The agency’s sweeping move dismantles longstanding safeguards and puts lives at risk.

Abby Zwerner still has a bullet lodged in her chest after 6 surgeries. She was shot by her 6-year old student. Please, please, please, take this as your reminder to right now to securely store your firearm—locked and unloaded & separate from ammunition — so it never reaches the hands of a child.

Newly Released Bodycam Footage Shows the Horrifying Moments After 6-Year-Old Student Shoots Teacher Abby Zwerner

After first grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by her 6-year-old student in 2023, the police bodycam footage of the disturbing aftermath has been released for the first time. In it, the unidentified ...

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The gun industry’s solution to individuals facing domestic violence? Buy a gun. All while they oppose laws to protect survivors. Why isn’t everyone focusing on getting guns out of the hands of their dangerous abusers? Every 12 hours, an American is shot and killed by an intimate partner. ENOUGH.

Armed Abusers, Unsafe Homes: How Guns Make Domestic Violence More Deadly

In a home where abuse is present, adding a gun inherently elevates the threat. This Domestic Violence Awareness Month and every

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A 5-year old should never have to watch anyone, let alone federal agents, open fire on the person sitting next to them. My heart breaks just thinking about the terror this child felt. We need answers.

ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City

The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...

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A recipe for increased gun violence. Until a few weeks ago, 18-year-olds could only legally purchase a long gun from a licensed dealer. Now, thanks to the DOJ, they can legally buy handguns—the most trafficked firearms—while teens are simultaneously being recruited into gun trafficking networks.

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This should shock and alarm us all. American high schoolers are being recruited into gun trafficking networks that arm Mexican cartels. When lethal weapons are this easy to divert into the illegal market, the consequences don’t stop at our border. They fuel violence on both sides of it.

This should shock and alarm us all. American high schoolers are being recruited into gun trafficking networks that arm Mexican cartels. When lethal weapons are this easy to divert into the illegal market, the consequences don’t stop at our border. They fuel violence on both sides of it.

American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.

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We don’t have to live this way. Strong gun laws save lives.

2 dead, 35 injured in homecoming party mass shooting in Georgia

A shooting at a homecoming party in Vienna, Georgia, left two people dead and 35 people injured, according to local officials.

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Women deserve to be safe. But we should be highly skeptical of an industry that sees our fear as an opportunity for massive profit, and markets firearms as a risk-free solution. Bringing a gun into the home introduces a new set of risks. Read my latest post on Locked & Unloaded.

Women Bought Guns During the Pandemic. What Were They Really Buying?

Female gun ownership increased after 2020, which raises questions about what safety means to this critical demographic

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Silencers Sawed-off shotguns Short-barreled rifles Weapons we’ve regulated for nearly a century with good reason. Now, Trump’s DOJ is choosing not to defend these protections, and instead, they are putting these weapons into the hands of criminals. The only people who want this: the gun lobby.

Brady Condemns DOJ Decision to Allow Deregulation of Uniquely…

DOJ announced it will not appeal the ruling in Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF, overturning century-old common-sense regulations on silencers and more.

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9 years ago, 60 people went to a concert in Las Vegas and never came home. The pain hasn’t faded and neither has the inaction. As the Supreme Court considers challenges to assault weapons bans, remember this: Doing nothing costs lives. We cannot afford more tragedy.

Fellow Virginians, Early Voting is underway. If you’re tired of the reckless and deadly policies in Washington, make your voice heard now. Together, we can build a safer America. Find more information about early voting at elections.virginia.gov

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All localities in Virginia offer early voting. Voters are only allowed to vote early in the jurisdiction in which they are registered. Each locality in Virginia sets its own early voting location(s). ...

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For 21 years, the gun industry has enjoyed special protections that make it more difficult for families devastated by gun violence to have their day in court. In my latest post, I explain why it’s long past time to repeal a law known as PLCAA, and what Brady’s victories in court prove is possible.

Twenty-One Years Too Long: Why isn’t Congress Making the Gun Industry Answer for the Harm it Causes?

This November, we must elect leaders who will repeal a key gun industry protection — the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act”

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@josephsakran.bsky.social is right. We need more physicians and other healthcare professionals in office. They see the toll of America’s gun violence epidemic firsthand, and they know what it takes to stop it. Vote on November 3rd.

El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics. | Opinion

Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.

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I’m proud that our @bradyunited.org Show Gun Safety initiative worked with the team behind Peacock’s The Good Daughter to portray gun violence and its lasting trauma with care. I can’t wait to watch. The show premieres on November 12.

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Are Southern Sisters With Secrets in ‘The Good Daughter’ First Look

Byrne and Fahy speak to VF about playing siblings whose lives are forever altered by a violent home invasion in childhood—then disrupted again by a school shooting that reunites them as adults.

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There are women behind these numbers. Women who mattered. Women who feared their partner. Women who are mourned by their family members. This administration is doing nothing to protect vulnerable women. They are gutting funding for prevention and actively putting more guns in dangerous hands.

Alarm as US domestic violence killings remain high despite drop in homicides

Non-profits say requests for legal help and housing on rise amid Trump funding cuts for prevention and response

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Secure storage can give an individual in crisis the gift of time. Time for another person to intervene, time for the moment to pass. The responsibility to store firearms safely doesn’t end with National Suicide Prevention Month. Make it an everyday practice. Learn more @endfamilyfire.org

There’s plenty of evidence that guns in the home make women less safe. Yet extremists are attempting to exploit women’s fear to overturn #MA gun laws. More guns and more fear aren’t a plan to keep women safe. They’re a complete failure and the only people who benefit are gun industry executives.

Gun advocates to Mass. women: Be afraid. Be very afraid. - The Boston Globe

The group trying to repeal the state’s gun safety laws are appealing to women. It might also help sell more guns.

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Children are now at least 20x more likely to die by firearm suicide at home than in a school shooting. Guns are the second most prevalent suicide method for kids ages 5 to 11. Firearm suicide is rising in America, & we can prevent it with secure storage. Read about steps you can take in my post.

Firearm Suicide is Rising in America. This National Suicide Prevention Month, Here’s What We Can All Do

This week, I look at the alarming risk facing children and youth, and the simple, evidence-based steps gun owners, parents, healthcare providers, and others can take to prevent tragedy.

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Today, we remember the 2,977 lives lost 25 years ago in horrific attacks, and we honor the courage of those who ran towards danger to save others. May their memory be a blessing. We must recommit ourselves to protecting one another and strengthen our commitment to a safer America.

Thank you Senators @padilla.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov and every Senator who is standing up for the National Firearms Act as this administration abandons its responsibility to defend it. These lifesaving protections have stood for nearly a century. Thank you for fighting to keep Americans safe.

As our chair @josephsakran.bsky.social shared in the Times, Baltimore’s historic drop in gun violence didn’t happen by accident. When ghost guns flooded the streets of Baltimore, the city fought back. Brady helped take the gun industry to court. We won. Gun violence is not inevitable.

Opinion | Keep Lighting the Torches That Gloria Steinem Lit

Readers continue offering tributes to the feminist icon, who died last week. Also: Reducing gun violence; curbing A.I. in schools.

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AI gun detection systems in schools are an expensive and dangerous distraction from addressing the root causes of gun violence in this country. We must address America’s obsession with unfettered access to guns. Read more in my latest Substack post. Subscribe today to Locked & Unloaded.

High-Tech Bandaids: The Dangerous Myth of the AI-Protected School

Tech-driven school hardening is a dangerous distraction from the real solution: Regulating firearms in America

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This is not the usual satire published by McSweeney’s. The horrors of Trump’s rollbacks of lifesaving gun regulations do indeed take us back 100 years. His actions will cost human lives, and he doesn’t seem to care.

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: July 2026: Atrocities 1117-1207

Add another 90 atrocities to the list.

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Only in guns everywhere America does this happen.

College student fatally shot by Pennsylvania police was at 'the wrong house': Mother

A college student was fatally shot by a police officer after apparently ringing the doorbell of a residence he thought was his friend's house, his parents said.

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Never forget Alex Pretti. And never forget what this administration did.

Alex Pretti's parents, sister call for accountability, seven months after he was fatally shot by federal agents

“We really want to get the facts out, of what happened to Alex that day,” Michael Pretti said. “I mean — we’ve seen what happened. The videos are pretty clear. But we want justice. We want accountabil...

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Of course they did. It’s almost like this administration fears it might lose another election… And ironic when the President has been voting by mail. We must have fair and free elections.

Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms

The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in a case over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented befo...

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