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Statement

Moms Leader: FedEx Decision to End Partnership with NRA a ‘Wise and Responsible Move’

November 1, 2018
Gun Control

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the decision by FedEx to stop giving discounts to National Rifle Association members:

“FedEx made a wise and responsible move by ending its practice of giving discounts to National Rifle Association (NRA) members last week. That partnership was tantamount to an endorsement of the NRA’s appalling agenda and gave NRA leaders a marketing tool to entice people to join and support its work.

“The NRA floods our communities with firearms and fosters a ‘guns everywhere’ culture. More than 300 million guns are in circulation in the United States and 100,000 Americans are injured or killed with guns every year. FedEx should never have helped build the NRA’s membership and advance its lethal agenda. We are pleased that the company has reversed course by pulling out of the NRA’s Business Alliance.

“Tens of thousands of MomsRising members signed a petition demanding that FedEx stop supporting the NRA. MomsRising organized that petition in partnership with Guns Down, Campaign to Unload, Color of Change, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Media Matters for America, Newtown Action Alliance, One Pulse, Pride Fund To End Gun Violence and States United to Prevent Gun Violence. We are grateful that, at last, FedEx leaders heard our voices and chose a more responsible course.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.