Gun Safety Update

Samantha Bee Demonstrates How Frighteningly Easy It Is to Purchase a Gun.
On the latest Full Frontal, Samantha Bee took us on her quest to rent the costume of the National Rifle Association's esteemed gun safety mascot, Eddie Eagle. But doing so proved to be a surprisingly onerous process—one that required filling out an 18-page application and dealing with the group's mandatory 20-day waiting period before anyone can get their hands on Eddie's gear.

Compare that with the relatively simple task of acquiring a gun, whether online, at your run-of-the-mill gun shop, or at a gun show in New Mexico:

"Are you a felon?" one gun own seller in New Mexico asked a Full Frontal producer.

"No," she replied.

"Okay."

Another gun secured! As the episode went on, Bee and her team were able to add to their arsenal with frightening ease, all while being repeatedly denied an elusive Eddie Eagle costume.

Do we keep standing against the NRA’s radical anti-wildlife agenda?

Or do we allow wealthy trophy hunters—just like the dentist who killed Cecil the lion—to import 41 trophies of polar bears sport-hunted in the Arctic to the U.S.?

We’ve made an important first step with thousands of Humane Society Legislative Fund supporters like you speaking up this month and telling their senators to reject the deadly SHARE Act. Thank you! But we can’t stop now.

Until this legislation is defeated, the threat to majestic wildlife and wildlands is urgent. This deadly bill has already passed the House, so it’s critical that we act now. Will you chip in $25.00 to help us fight this legislation and support other critical animal protection legislation?

The heartbreaking polar bear trophies are just part of this NRA-backed bill’s enormous anti-wildlife agenda. 

When I wrote to you last week, I said that the SHARE Act could open up pristine wilderness areas to painful steel-jawed leghold traps, where animals are killed and maimed just for their fur pelts. It could also block the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from closing loopholes in the domestic ivory trade to stop the slaughter of elephants just for their tusks.

We can’t let the trophy hunters, poachers, and wildlife traffickers get this political grab-bag from Congress. Your generous gift today can help save the rarest and most majestic creatures around the globe from a cruel fate. 

A Message from Colin Goddard: Nine years ago, I was sitting in my French class at Virginia Tech when I was shot four times. Like so many of the 91 Americans shot and killed every day, I was just going about my daily life when I was caught in gunfire. 

Yet, over the past nine years, the NRA has only gotten more extreme, more ruthless, and more determined to block any progress to reduce the number of Americans killed by guns -- a rate that's 25 times the gun murder rate in other developed countries. 

As you read this, the NRA is busy working to force places like schools, daycare centers, playgrounds, and college campuses to allow guns. And wherever they're trying to chip away at our gun laws, we're right there fighting them tooth-and-nail. Just yesterday, we blocked their agenda in Wisconsin, and we've put the NRA on defense in dozens of other states.

If you believe the NRA's extremist vision of guns everywhere, for anyone, no questions asked has no place in our country, step up and give $25 or more. Your donation today will help determine whether guns in places like schools, daycare centers, and playgrounds will become the new normal.
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After that terrifying day nine years ago, I became determined to fight for stronger laws so no kid would have to fear for their safety at school. I decided to speak out, not only because of what happened to me, but because of what kept happening in small towns and big cities all across America. 

And yet as our movement has grown, and as more and more Americans have woken up to the devastating reality of daily gun violence, the NRA and their allies in Congress have only gotten more extreme. 

That's why we need your help to fight the NRA at every level of government and end their influence on our gun laws. The donation you make today will go straight towards: 
• Flooding statehouses with supporters, volunteers, and Moms
• Fact-checking and debunking the NRA's lies in the media
• Kicking out politicians who do the NRA's bidding
• Passing strong gun laws at the local, state, and federal level

Thank you for your dedication to this fight, 

New Jersey Coalition for Common Sense. Over the past few months, Gabby and Mark have traveled to Oregon, Delaware, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia to roll out a series of state-based Coalitions for Common Sense. 

These coalitions are made up of veterans, gun owners, law enforcement officials, business leaders, and community advocates working together to focus on commonsense solutions to make their states safer from gun violence. 

In Virginia, for example, our current focus is on getting guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, closing loopholes that allow dangerous people to buy a gun without a background check, and ensuring lawmakers have the resources they need to strengthen gun violence prevention laws. 

One day, there's a very good chance Gabby and Mark will be in New Jersey to launch the next Coalition for Common Sense, and when they do, we want to know if you're willing to play a part. 

Let Gabby and Mark know that you are willing to be an active member of New Jersey's Coalition for Common Sense when it rolls out in the near future. 

For many decades, the gun lobby has used the size of its membership and its large bank account to influence legislators in state capitals across the country. But I know that if we stand together in New Jersey, we can pass laws to make everyone safer from gun violence. 

That's why adding your name is so important. 

over a billion people around the world use Facebook -- and some of them are apparently using it to sell weapons ranging from pistols to guided missiles and anti-aircraft weapons.

Sign the petition from The Alliance for Gun Responsibility if you want Facebook to crack down on arms sales. Click here to add your name >>

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This is extremely alarming.

Loopholes in our gun laws already allow dangerous people to get their hands on deadly weapons without submitting to a background check. Now, one of the most widely used websites in the world is being used to sell everything from...
...a pistol or rifle...to antiaircraft weapons...and guided missiles
Facebook should not be a place where people who would use guns to harm themselves or others can easily obtain them. Despite the ban on firearms sales the company instituted in January, Facebook has found enforcement to be “increasingly difficult”. As one of the world’s biggest and most profitable companies, we expect Facebook to do better.

There isn’t a catch-all solution to gun violence, but together, we can find common-sense ways to prevent gun violence -- Facebook should be a part of the solution.

URGENT PETITION: Call on Facebook to crack down on online weapons sales →

More than a billion people around the world use Facebook; it connects people across this country and across the globe, but it can also make it easier to connect people who shouldn’t own weapons with people willing to sell them.

Facebook connects families and preserves memories. Let’s make sure that the memories preserved are not those of pain and suffering that could have been prevented -- we CAN make our communities safer by stopping gun violence before it starts.

Add your name today and urge Facebook to be a part of the solution. Sign the petition:

http://action.wagunresponsibility.org/Guns-on-Facebook