Everytown for Gun Safety is a U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to preventing gun violence through research, public education, legislative advocacy, and electoral activity. It grew out of mayoral and grassroots gun-safety efforts and focuses on reducing gun deaths and injuries, supporting survivors, and advancing what it calls 'common-sense' gun-safety reforms.
Typically pursues policies such as universal background checks, closing private-sale and online-sales loopholes, extreme risk protection orders (red flag laws), safe-storage requirements, limits on high-capacity magazines and certain semi-automatic weapons, increased funding for gun-violence research and community violence intervention, and stronger enforcement of existing laws.
Funded by a mix of individual donors (including major philanthropic contributors such as Michael Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies), grassroots small-dollar contributions, and foundation grants.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; Mayors Against Illegal Guns (founding coalition); Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund; prominent individuals associated include Michael Bloomberg and Shannon Watts.
Non-profit advocacy organization (operates affiliated 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities and an affiliated political action arm)
