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- EIN 52-1285097
- (202) 370-8100
- 840 1st St Ne Ste 400 Washington DC 20002 USA
- www.bradycenter.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Consumer Protection, Crime & Law, Crime Prevention, Public Interest Law
Mission: We are devoted to cutting gun deaths in half by 2025 through our three major campaigns: finish the job, bad apple gun dealers, and asking saves kids. The brady center works to reform the gun industry by enacting and enforcing sensible regulations to reduce gun violence, including regulations governing the gun industry. In addition, we represent victims of gun violence in the courts. We educate the public about gun violence through public health and safety programs, litigation, grassroots mobilization, and outreach to affected communities.
Programs: Public education: creating public health and safety educational campaigns that promote safer attitudes and behaviors around the 300 million guns in our homes and communities. In particular, we seek to expand nationally our "ask" (asking saves kids) initiative which has been proven effective in reducing accidental deaths of children, by promoting a peer to peer inquiry into the presence of unlocked and loaded guns in the home. "speak up" empowers students with an unprecedented resource for preventing violence in their schools and communities. Students can safely and anonymously report suspected threats 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by calling 1-866-speak-up.
membership services:maintain contact with members to update them on our programs, help members use their individual resources to reduce gun violence, encourage volunteerism, and to maintain their membership in good standing.
legal action: for over 25 years the brady center's legal action project has been the nation's only law group fighting in the courts to prevent gun deaths and injuries. We reform the negligent and dangerous practices of the gun industry by representing victims of gun violence in high impact lawsuits, including law enforcement officers shot in the line of duty, as well as children and families. We have won landmark precedents holding that gun companies can be held legally responsible for the damage caused by their irresponsible business practices. Our victories have forced gun dealers and manufacturers to reform their practices to prevent sales of guns to dangerous people, and sent a message to the bad-apple gun dealers that supply over half of guns traced to crime that they cannot get away with profiting from arming criminals and gun traffickers. The legal action project also works with public officials to defend gun laws that are under attack, and challenges laws and regulations that worsen the problem of gun violence. We have filed briefs or provided legal advice in hundreds of gun law cases, and won precedent-setting victories in high level state and federal courts, including the u. S. Supreme court.