Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

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Gun interest groups in the U.S.
Pro-gun rights
National Rifle Association Gun Owners of America JPFO Pink Pistols Second Amendment Foundation Second Amendment Sisters Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Liberty Belles Law Enforcement Alliance of America
Pro-gun control
Americans for Democratic Action Brady Campaign Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Coalition to Stop Gun Violence League of Women Voters
Pro-rights and pro-control
American Hunters and Shooters Association Americans for Gun Safety Foundation

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence or CSGV is a non-partisan group of 45 organizations representing 100,000 individual members that was founded in 1974 to ban handguns and currently seeks to ban various semi-automatic firearms and to strengthen other gun control laws in the United States. The coalition works at the state and federal level to prevent gun violence through both litigation and legislative lobbying.[1]

The Coalition is under the leadership of founding president Michael Beard and executive director Joshua Horwitz. The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence is CSGV's non-profit adjunct organization that focuses on youth education, funding research, and informing professionals and the public about gun violence issues.

This organization was first known as the "The National Coalition to Ban Handguns", which was often confused with the similarly-named National Council to Control Handguns (NCCH). [2] Rather than endure the confusion, its name was changed to "The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence". [3],[4]

[edit] Members

1. American Academy of Pediatrics
2. American Association of Suicidology
3. American Ethical Union
4. American Jewish Committee
5. American Jewish Congress
6. American Psychiatric Association
7. American Public Health Association
8. Americans for Democratic Action
9. Assoc. of Japanese Families of Gun Violence Victims in the U.S.A.
10. Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
11. The Bible Holiness Movement, International
12. Center for Science in the Public Interest
13. Central Conference of American Rabbis
14. Child Welfare League of America, Inc.
15. Church of the Brethren
16. The Communitarian Network
17. The Council of The Great City Schools
18. The DISARM Education Fund
19. Fellowship of Reconciliation
20. Friends Committee on National Legislation
21. Jesuit Conference - Office of Social Ministries
22. Jewish Community Center Association
23. Jewish Women International
24. Loretto Community
25. Mennonite Central Committee
26. National Association of School Psychologists
27. National Association of Social Workers
28. National Council of Jewish Women, Inc.
29. National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
30. National Urban League, Inc.
31. North American Federation of Temple Youth
32. Pan American Trauma Association
33. Peace Action of Washington (state)
34. Presbyterian Church USA
35. Union of American Hebrew Congregations
36. Unitarian Universalist Association
37. United Church of Christ
38. United Federation of Teachers
39. United Methodist Church Board of Church & Society
40. United States Conference of Mayors
41. United States Student Association
42. United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
43. Woman's National Democratic Club
44. Women's League for Conservative Judaism
45. YWCA of U.S.A.

[edit] References

• United States Senate, 97th Cong., 2d Sess., Report: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 27-44 (1982) - A report by the previously-named "The National Council to Ban Handguns", as presented to Congress

[edit] External links

• Official Website - csgv.org
• Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence - Youth Website - ymedia.org
• Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Cong., 2d Sess., The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 27-44 (1982)

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