ARS PAC Calls on VA Senate Candidates Hal Parrish & Glen Sturtevant to Release Their Responses to the Corporate Gun Lobby’s Questionnaires

October 30, 2015– Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC, the gun violence prevention organization founded by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut Captain Mark Kelly, today called on Virginia Senate District 29 candidate Hal Parrish and Senate District 10 candidate Glen Sturtevant to release their responses to questionnaires required by the National Rifle Association, which is financially backing the candidacies of Parrish and Sturtevant.

“It’s time for Mr. Parrish and Mr. Sturtevant to tell Virginians what they told the corporate gun lobby about what they would and would not do to reduce gun violence if elected. Given the tragedies Virginians have been through from Virginia Tech to Roanoke, we are demanding that candidates for office say where they stand on commonsense laws that would help make the commonwealth safer from gun violence,” said Hayley Zachary, Executive Director of Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC. “Virginians deserve to know exactly where the people seeking to represent them stand on the serious issues impacting their community – and they deserve to know if the people who want to be their voice in Richmond stand with them, or stand with the gun lobby.”

 Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC is supporting Mr. Parrish’s opponent in the Senate District 10 race, Jeremy McPike and Mr. Sturtevant’s opponent in the Senate District 29 race, Dan Gecker, with a targeted program of voter communication that includes online advertising, radio advertising, direct mail, and live and recorded telephone calls to key voters. The targeted program is supported by a six-figure investment. Both Dan Gecker and Jeremy McPike have said they support closing the loopholes that let felons and domestic abusers buy guns without a background check.