“We are grateful that, at last, the Trump administration is moving to ban bump stocks, defining them as machine guns and making them illegal. This small step is welcome and long, long overdue but more action is urgently needed to combat gun violence. Lives are being lost.  Gun violence in America is the highest it’s been in 40 years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Too many people have been injured or killed by guns as this administration and a Republican Congress dragged their feet on adopting the common sense gun safety measures that can make our schools, communities, workplaces, streets and homes safer. We look to the new Congress, taking office in a few weeks, to do what the last one would not: adopt universal background checks on all gun sales, ban military-style assault weapons with high-capacity magazines, and advance comprehensive gun safety reforms that will prevent more mass shootings like those we saw in Pittsburgh, Thousand Oaks, Parkland and Las Vegas and reduce the toll of everyday gun violence that’s killing more than 40,000 people a year.” 

  --Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO, MomsRising

“At this time when there are more firearms in civilian hands than there are people in the United States, we are pleased to see the administration finally ban bump stocks – deadly devices that turn semiautomatic firearms into machine guns. We look to the administration to vigorously defend the ban against all court challenges. What the U.S. Department of Justice did today is a small step in the right direction, but it is not nearly enough. We need meaningful gun safety measures, including limiting military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The moms of America demand comprehensive solutions that will keep us all safe. We have the right to expect that our families will be safe on the streets and in our homes.” 

  --Statement of Gloria Pan, National Director, Gun Safety & Rapid Response, MomsRising