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Majority of Kroger Customers Want an End to Open Carry
After more than 300,000 petition signatures and nearly 13,000 phone calls demanding that the nation’s largest supermarket chain stop allowing the open carry of guns in its stores, a new poll conducted by Benenson Strategy Group released today shows 64 percent of Kroger shoppers polled believe people should not be able to openly carry guns in Kroger stores.
Despite this opposition to Kroger’s policy allowing open carry of firearms — and even though a majority of states allow people to openly carry firearms without a background check, training or permit — Kroger so far has sided with a small group of gun extremists and refused to change its policy.
While Kroger has not yet changed its open carry policy, in recent weeks, New Seasons Market, a chain of more than a dozen grocery stores located in Oregon and Washington, and Panera Bread recently joined other major brands, including Target, Starbucks, Chipotle, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chili’s, in asking guests to leave their firearms at home.
Kroger claims to be a ‘Family of Stores,’ so where are their family values?
We love this photo from Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen.
He writes, “I stand with my constituents in calling for common sense laws to reduce gun violence. #NotOneMore.”
Thank you Congressman!
Representative Sharice Davids was endorsed by Everytown in the midterms and has worked to pass common-sense gun safety laws in Congress. Her historic victory made her one of the first of two Native American women elected to Congress and the first openly LGBTQ representative of Kansas.
Since being sworn in, Rep. Davids has already shown up for the gun safety movement by voting YES on #HR8, the legislation to require background checks on all gun sales and has met with Moms Demand Action volunteers to talk about her dedication to addressing gun violence in the U.S., which she calls a “public health crisis.”
The NRA’s brazen shell game with donations: A Yahoo News investigation
[M]y contributions and others like them may be a big problem for the NRA because, according to some of the nation’s top experts on federal election law, they are all illegal.
A must read.
Thank you Safeway and Albertsons for considering the safety of your customers and employees!
That’s almost two a week.
70 of those kids might be alive today had the firearm been stored responsibly. Laws to prevent children from accessing unsecured guns save lives.
Learn more about your state’s child access laws, and download resources to learn what you can do to make your community safer.
This is HUGE! Oregon Governor Kate Brown just signed background checks into law!
Oregon is now the 18th state to require criminal background checks on all handgun sales – and the 12th to require them on all gun sales. This is an incredible victory for Oregon – but also for gun sense across the country – because it shows what happens when we come together and stand up to the gun lobby. Not only do we win, we win BIG.
In Oregon, domestic abusers and meth users are evading background checks and buying guns online in plain sight
n Oregon, domestic abusers and meth users are evading background checks and buying guns online in plain sight. Federal law requires brick-and-mortar gun stores to run background checks on potential buyers and bars domestic abusers and criminals like this man from buying firearms. There is abundant evidence that this stops gun sales to dangerous people. But in Oregon, a gaping loophole in the law makes it easy for people like the Portland man to buy guns from unlicensed sellers who are not required to run background checks. As a result, there was nothing to stop this dangerous criminal from getting a gun from a stranger he met online, no questions asked. Learn more and take action.
Man Dies After Being Shot in Georgia Nightclub
We already know that guns and alcohol don’t mix – in fact, the U.S. Department of Justice found that more than 40% of people convicted in homicide cases had been drinking at the time of the murder.
But in just the past week we’ve seen more proof points for why guns and alcohol are a deadly combination. Last week a Texas woman was shot and killed by a stray bullet outside a bar in North Georgia. And just yesterday there was a fatal shooting at a nightclub in Columbus, GA that killed a musician.
Just months ago, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed the “Guns Everywhere” bill into law that allows guns to be carried into bars all across the state. The results speak for themselves.
Guns and alcohol don’t mix, and these two horrible tragedies are the most recent examples why.
Saturday is the first day of National Gun Violence Survivors Week – when we ask everyone to shine a spotlight on the stories of Americans who have had loved ones taken by gun violence, who have been wounded or threatened with a gun, or witnessed a shooting.
We’ll be sharing the stories of survivors and statistics that highlight the impact of gun violence.