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Our lives.
Our chance.

We can't afford to wait for change to trickle out from Washington—and we don't have to. Guns Down America organizes businesses and consumers around effective, efficient, and non-policy solutions to gun violence so we can build the safer futures we deserve. We have a window of opportunity to move this work forward, will you join us?

What We've Achieved

In the face of an incredibly challenging political and policy environment, the Guns Down America community continued making change happen.
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Exposing Power

We launched over a dozen unique resources dedicated to filling knowledge gaps in the violence prevention movement, including the first quarterly gun industry lobbying tracker.
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Novel Research

In 2026, we will be publishing a powerful new tool that quantifies the impact of gun accessibility at retail to deploy targeted violence reduction solutions. This project is fueled by our unique, first-of-its-kind small arms industry dataset.
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For Better Project

We organized over 100 small business owners across the Midwest & Great Lakes to stand up for their communities by taking a community safety pledge.
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