Connecticut’s NSSF Honors Radical Lawmaker Who Led Fight against Sandy Hook Families
Washington DC — GIFFORDS, the national gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, released a statement today condemning the Connecticut-based National Sports Shooting Foundation (NSSF) for honoring Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan as its “legislator of the year.” Jordan is notorious for repeatedly antagonizing Sandy Hook survivors and their allies in the gun safety movement. NSSF was based in Newtown, Connecticut, until 2023 when it moved to Shelton.
In 2013, Jordan was harshly criticized for introducing pro–gun lobby legislation at the one-year mark of the Sandy Hook shooting. In 2019, Jordan led a group of 22 House Republicans in an amici curiae brief urging the United States Supreme Court to side with Remington, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster rifle used in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, over the families of nine victims of the shooting. In 2022, Remington settled the case for $73 million.
Mary Yatrousis, GIFFORDS National Press Secretary:
“NSSF’s Connecticut staff should be ashamed for honoring a lawmaker notorious for leading the fight against Sandy Hook families in Congress. Having seen the horror of gun violence up close, people across Connecticut are fed up with the extremist gun lobby that openly puts profits over saving lives. As someone who was proudly raised and worked in the state, I know most people would be surprised to know that the face of the gun lobby is in our backyard.
“NSSF may have moved out of Newtown last year, but the scars inflicted by its ‘guns everywhere’ agenda will remain forever.”
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