The Florida chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement in response to House Republicans advancing HB17, a bill to repeal the law that requires a 3-day waiting period on all dealer sales and to reopen the deadly “Charleston Loophole,” and HB1223 which would lower the minimum age which person may purchase firearm back down from 21 to 18. These votes comes just one week after the 6-year marker of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,  Florida, where 1 ..read more

My father, Chris Hixon, was a 27-year Navy veteran who served on both active duty and in the reserves and was deployed at sea during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. A little over four years after he retired from the Naval Reserve, he was killed during the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL on February 14th, 2018.  During the latter part of his Navy career, my father served as a Master-at-Arms, the Navy’s military police rating. This means he had trained to respond during active shooter scenarios—and that is exactly what he did on that tragic ..read more

NEW YORK — Everytown for Gun Safety and its grassroots networks, Students Demand Action and Moms Demand Action, released the following statements today ahead of the six year mark of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, during which 17 people were shot and killed and 17 others were wounded. In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, lawmakers in the Florida legislature worked across the aisle to pass the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. This bipartisan legislation, signed into law by former Republican Go ..read more

TALLAHASSEE, FL. –  Today, Florida Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, held their advocacy day for the 2024 legislation session and held a press conference to call for action on gun safety during the session. Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers gathered at the Florida State Capitol to not only honor and stand with victims of gun violence, but to continue to call on Florida lawmakers to advance a common-sense gun safety agenda that will save lives. This includes calling for legislation to ..read more

Last Session, Florida Lawmakers and Governor DeSantis Enacted Permitless Carry, Despite The Majority of Floridians Opposing Efforts to Erode Common Sense Gun Reform TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statements as the Florida State Legislature begins their legislative session. Last session, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed permitless carry into law behind closed doors despite research showing it could increase gun violence and polling that showed 77 pe ..read more

TALLAHASSEE, FL – Today, Everytown for Gun Safety launched the updated “Gun Law Rankings” for 2024, an online tool and website that ranks all 50 states based on the strength of their gun laws and catalogs gun safety laws state by state. This year, Everytown’s state gun law rankings also shows whether states’ rankings increased or decreased over the past year, reflecting progress made by passing common-sense gun safety policies or setbacks as a result of enacting dangerous measures backed by the gun lobby. Everytown’s analysis found that Florida ranks 22nd in the nation for its gun laws, droppi ..read more

NEW YORK – The Halloween holiday weekend marked yet another deadly weekend in the U.S. as gun violence killed and wounded hundreds of people across the country. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were at least 12 mass shootings this weekend in which at least 11 people were shot and killed and 76 others wounded. This number doesn’t include the many other shootings that occurred in cities across the country, highlighting the importance of addressing city gun violence. These shootings follow a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, which killed 18 people and wounded 13 in the deadliest mass ..read more

Angela Michelle Carr, a loving mom just giving a friend a ride. Jerrald Gallion, the beloved father working to support his baby girl. Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr, a teenager who went out to work and never came home. On August 26th, we witnessed yet another new headline in a tragically familiar story: Black people being killed simply for existing. On the same day America was acknowledging the 60th anniversary of March on Washington, a white supremacist gunman targeted, shot, and killed these three people in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville after being turned away from a historically Bla ..read more

This weekend in Jacksonville, Florida, three people, all Black, were tragically shot and killed by a white supremacist while shopping at a Dollar General store. Reports have confirmed that this killing was an act of racist hate, intentionally targeting the Black community.  “When we have politicians speaking hate into the world, combined with ‘guns everywhere’ policies, it results in a country where people are shot and killed because of the color of their skin,” said Angela-Ferrell Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. “We must simultaneously work to dismantle w ..read more

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  — The Florida chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statements in response to a hate-motivated shooting yesterday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida. While details are still emerging, reports confirm that three people were shot and killed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and Glock handgun, and that the shooting was a racist act of violence targeting Black people in the community. “My heart is broken. I grieve for everyone who was sens ..read more