Coalition To Stop Gun Violence - Mission

Mission

According to CSGV, its mission is to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy. The organization has five areas of focus, regarding issues and campaigns:

  • Guns, Democracy and Freedom: CSGV is opposed to the "insurrectionist philosophy" which the group attributes to the National Rifle Association (NRA). The coalition contends the NRA's goal "to take whatever measures necessary, including force, to abolish oppressive government” is, in fact, a plot to oppose any regulations on guns and degrades the institutions that protect other freedoms.
  • Microstamping: CSGV supports, on state and federal levels, research relating to, and the implementation of firearm microstamping, an emerging ballistic identification technology which purports to allow law enforcement to trace the serial number of a firearm from ejected cartridge case(s) recovered at a crime scene. Microstamping was enacted into law in the state of California in 2007 with AB 1471. It was immediately suspended while the state determines the feasibility of implementing the law.
  • Gun Show Loophole: CSGV believes that the ability of private individuals to engage in private firearms transactions without requirement for background checks constitutes a 'loophole' in the law, and is working to change this.
  • Opposition to Concealed Carry: CSGV highlights problems with the current system for providing permits to carry a concealed loaded weapon in public.
  • Federal Legislation: Through federal legislation, CSGV supports repealing the Tiahrt Amendment, renewing the Assault Weapons Ban, closing the "gun show loophole", and prohibiting individuals who are on any government watch list from purchasing firearms.

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