To pass gun safety laws, we need gun safety champions in office. In 2022, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and President Biden signed it into law. This lifesaving milestone marks the first significant gun safety legislation in nearly three decades, proving the importance of electing gun safety leaders in Congress and the White House.

Despite national headwinds that would have suggested otherwise, voters rallied around champions who were committed to putting their safety first in a number of crucial battleground seats—resulting in one of the highest totals of Election Night wins in Giffords history. 

In Pennsylvania, we ran ads that were proven to move voters and held numerous events that helped push Lt. Governor John Fetterman and Attorney General Josh Shapiro to victory over dangerous extremists like Mehmet Oz and Doug Mastriano. We also held a first of its kind US Senate Forum that gave voters the chance to hear directly from their candidates about the importance of tackling rising crime and everyday gun violence.

In Florida, we launched our first ever state-based political program, Giffords Florida, which played a crucial role in hitting back against Republican misinformation in both English and Spanish and mobilizing voters around public safety messages from Miami to Tampa. In September, we took to the road for a bus tour headlined by our founder Gabby Giffords, our senior advisor Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Maxwell Frost, and others aimed at meeting voters where they were and pushing Floridians to vote for un futuro seguro for the next generation. 

In states like Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia and Colorado, we worked diligently to reelect champions like Governors Gretchen Whitmer, Tim Walz and Tony Evers and Senators Raphael Warnock and Michael Bennet—all of whom made gun safety a key part of their campaigns and vowed to take needed steps to protect their communities if reelected. We also elected new gun safety governors in Massachusetts in Maryland—Maura Healey and Wes Moore—who have helped pave the way for important gun safety legislation to move in their states.

Together, we showed that gun safety is a winning issue and set the stage for continued wins in 2024 and beyond.

As the nation battled COVID-19, Americans turned to leaders they trusted to keep their families and communities safe. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris promised to take action and save lives, and they won the greatest number of votes ever cast—a resounding victory for gun safety and other critical issues. 

Our victories across Virginia proved that the politics of gun safety have shifted in favor of those fighting for safety, not the gun lobby. With a mandate for change, Virginia leaders took action and passed lifesaving gun safety legislation into law.

Candidates across the country ran and won on gun safety, and the American people made it clear that they expected their new representatives to act. The gun safety majority in the new Congress came together to pass H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act. This historic victory was a testament to the courage of advocates and survivors who fought so hard to finally bring change to Washington after years of gun lobby control and influence.