2018 Session Wrap Up: Big Gains for Common-Sense Gun Violence Reforms

Jun 30, 2018

2018 Session Recap: Big Gains for Common-Sense Gun Safety Reform Amazing Organizational Growth and Grassroots Activism Across the State This legislative session was very busy, with over 2,348 bills introduced in the House and Senate. And yet, in spite of the demands...

Final Lobby Day of 2018 a Huge Success

Jun 20, 2018

← RICAGV Statement on HB 8119 - Legalizing Civilian Ownership of Stun Guns (Tazers) Statement on the End of the 2018 Legislative Session → Thanks so much to the 20 RICAGV supporters who hit the House chamber for one more lobbying session last night. It was a...

RI Students to Legislators: We Are Not Targets

Jun 14, 2018

← ProJo My Turn: Elizabeth Abbott: RI Should Defy the Gun Lobby Week 2: Students Not Targets Rally → Students from Around Rhode Island Protest at the State House With the 2018 session winding down and no action on The Safe Schools Act, students demonstrated...

49 Motorcycle Gang Members Arrest in Pre-Dawn Drug Bust

May 24, 2018

← Great Turnout for Lobby Day Week 1: Youth Engagement Campaign → A year-long investigation involving more than 150 state, federal and local law enforcement officers lead to the arrests of 49 people in May 2018,  including a gang member who was stopped en...

Condemning RI Dems Exclusion of Gun Safety on Party Platform

May 10, 2018

RICAGV Press Release The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence Condemns the Rhode Island Democratic Party’s Exclusion on Gun Safety FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2018 CONTACT: Kat Kerwin, Director of Communications Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun...

Student Plans School Shooting in Vermont, Is Released on Bail

May 5, 2018

An 18-year-old former student at Fair Haven Union High School was charged with 4 felonies after police were alerted by his mother that he had bought a gun. A friend also contact the police because he was talking admiringly about the Parkland shooting, and hinted at...