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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org

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President @BradyUnited.org. Fighting to free America from gun violence. Proud Virginian, mother, and lawyer. Join the movement at bradyunited.org.

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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 6h
Fellow Virginians, Early Voting is underway. If you’re tired of the reckless and deadly policies in Washington, make your voice heard now. Together, we can build a safer America. Find more information about early voting at elections.virginia.gov
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All localities in Virginia offer early voting. Voters are only allowed to vote early in the jurisdiction in which they are registered. Each locality in Virginia sets its own early voting location(s). ...
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 28/09/2026
For 21 years, the gun industry has enjoyed special protections that make it more difficult for families devastated by gun violence to have their day in court. In my latest post, I explain why it’s long past time to repeal a law known as PLCAA, and what Brady’s victories in court prove is possible.
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Twenty-One Years Too Long: Why isn’t Congress Making the Gun Industry Answer for the Harm it Causes?
This November, we must elect leaders who will repeal a key gun industry protection — the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act”
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 18/09/2026
@josephsakran.bsky.social is right. We need more physicians and other healthcare professionals in office. They see the toll of America’s gun violence epidemic firsthand, and they know what it takes to stop it. Vote on November 3rd.
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El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics. | Opinion
Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 17/09/2026
I’m proud that our @bradyunited.org Show Gun Safety initiative worked with the team behind Peacock’s The Good Daughter to portray gun violence and its lasting trauma with care. I can’t wait to watch. The show premieres on November 12.
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Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Are Southern Sisters With Secrets in ‘The Good Daughter’ First Look
Byrne and Fahy speak to VF about playing siblings whose lives are forever altered by a violent home invasion in childhood—then disrupted again by a school shooting that reunites them as adults.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 15/09/2026
There are women behind these numbers. Women who mattered. Women who feared their partner. Women who are mourned by their family members. This administration is doing nothing to protect vulnerable women. They are gutting funding for prevention and actively putting more guns in dangerous hands.
theguardian.com
Alarm as US domestic violence killings remain high despite drop in homicides
Non-profits say requests for legal help and housing on rise amid Trump funding cuts for prevention and response
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 15/09/2026
Secure storage can give an individual in crisis the gift of time. Time for another person to intervene, time for the moment to pass. The responsibility to store firearms safely doesn’t end with National Suicide Prevention Month. Make it an everyday practice. Learn more @endfamilyfire.org
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 14/09/2026
There’s plenty of evidence that guns in the home make women less safe. Yet extremists are attempting to exploit women’s fear to overturn #MA gun laws. More guns and more fear aren’t a plan to keep women safe. They’re a complete failure and the only people who benefit are gun industry executives.
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Gun advocates to Mass. women: Be afraid. Be very afraid. - The Boston Globe
The group trying to repeal the state’s gun safety laws are appealing to women. It might also help sell more guns.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 14/09/2026
Children are now at least 20x more likely to die by firearm suicide at home than in a school shooting. Guns are the second most prevalent suicide method for kids ages 5 to 11. Firearm suicide is rising in America, & we can prevent it with secure storage. Read about steps you can take in my post.
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Firearm Suicide is Rising in America. This National Suicide Prevention Month, Here’s What We Can All Do
This week, I look at the alarming risk facing children and youth, and the simple, evidence-based steps gun owners, parents, healthcare providers, and others can take to prevent tragedy.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 11/09/2026
Today, we remember the 2,977 lives lost 25 years ago in horrific attacks, and we honor the courage of those who ran towards danger to save others. May their memory be a blessing. We must recommit ourselves to protecting one another and strengthen our commitment to a safer America.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 11/09/2026
Thank you Senators @padilla.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov and every Senator who is standing up for the National Firearms Act as this administration abandons its responsibility to defend it. These lifesaving protections have stood for nearly a century. Thank you for fighting to keep Americans safe.
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Padilla, Welch Condemn DOJ’s Failure to Vigorously Defend Fundamental Gun Violence Prevention Law - Senator Alex Padilla
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led eleven colleagues in condemning the Department of Justice (DOJ)’...
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 09/09/2026
As our chair @josephsakran.bsky.social shared in the Times, Baltimore’s historic drop in gun violence didn’t happen by accident. When ghost guns flooded the streets of Baltimore, the city fought back. Brady helped take the gun industry to court. We won. Gun violence is not inevitable.
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Opinion | Keep Lighting the Torches That Gloria Steinem Lit
Readers continue offering tributes to the feminist icon, who died last week. Also: Reducing gun violence; curbing A.I. in schools.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 09/09/2026
AI gun detection systems in schools are an expensive and dangerous distraction from addressing the root causes of gun violence in this country. We must address America’s obsession with unfettered access to guns. Read more in my latest Substack post. Subscribe today to Locked & Unloaded.
krisbrownofficial.substack.com
High-Tech Bandaids: The Dangerous Myth of the AI-Protected School
Tech-driven school hardening is a dangerous distraction from the real solution: Regulating firearms in America
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 01/09/2026
This is not the usual satire published by McSweeney’s. The horrors of Trump’s rollbacks of lifesaving gun regulations do indeed take us back 100 years. His actions will cost human lives, and he doesn’t seem to care.
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: July 2026: Atrocities 1117-1207
Add another 90 atrocities to the list.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 26/08/2026
Only in guns everywhere America does this happen.
abcnews.com
College student fatally shot by Pennsylvania police was at 'the wrong house': Mother
A college student was fatally shot by a police officer after apparently ringing the doorbell of a residence he thought was his friend's house, his parents said.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 25/08/2026
Never forget Alex Pretti. And never forget what this administration did.
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Alex Pretti's parents, sister call for accountability, seven months after he was fatally shot by federal agents
“We really want to get the facts out, of what happened to Alex that day,” Michael Pretti said. “I mean — we’ve seen what happened. The videos are pretty clear. But we want justice. We want accountabil...
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 24/08/2026
Of course they did. It’s almost like this administration fears it might lose another election… And ironic when the President has been voting by mail. We must have fair and free elections.
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Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms
The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in a case over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented befo...
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 21/08/2026
For nearly a century, we agreed silencers and easily concealed, short-barreled firearms deserve strict oversight. Now that protection is being dismantled not because Americans asked for it, but because the gun industry wants cold hard cash. Their profits, our risk. Read my latest Substack post ⬇️
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A Century of Safety, Sacrificed
How the Trump administration is forcing Americans to once again bear the burden of gun violence so the firearm industry can boost its profits
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 20/08/2026
Americans see the grift: 69% believe Trump’s private business interests influence his decisions as president. Now his administration wants to make it easier to ship guns through the mail, while his son stands to profit from his shares in GrabAGun, an online gun retailer. Money first, human lives…?
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Most Americans believe Trump has inappropriately profited since returning to power, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
A majority of Americans believe President Trump and his family have inappropriately profited from ​cryptocurrency since his return to office and that his policy decisions are influenced by his busines...
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 20/08/2026
This administration has gone above and beyond to enact the gun industry’s agenda of guns everywhere, guardrails nowhere. Imagine if they worked this hard to keep Americans alive.
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Trump Administration Moves to Restore Felons’ Gun Rights
The Justice Department expects 330,000 people to apply to reclaim ability to own firearms under a new regulation.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 18/08/2026
The same administration that restored gun rights to convicted domestic abusers and violent January 6th insurrectionists wants us to blindly trust its judgment. I don’t. And neither should you.
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Justice Department creates a new pathway to restore gun rights for some convicted of felonies
The Justice Department has finalized a rule that will pave the way for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 18/08/2026
Imagine looking at America’s gun violence epidemic and deciding that your top priority is putting guns back in the hands of people with felony convictions. This administration’s obsession with more guns and no safeguards certainly tells us exactly who they are fighting for.
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Justice Department creates a new pathway to restore gun rights for some convicted of felonies
The Justice Department has finalized a rule that will pave the way for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated.
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Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradyunited.org · 17/08/2026
Today, DOJ finalized a new path for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated. The rule is a victory for Second Amendment advocates. Brady President @krisbrown.bradyunited.org responds in @apnews.com.
apnews.com
Justice Department creates a new pathway to restore gun rights for some convicted of felonies
The Justice Department has finalized a rule that will pave the way for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 17/08/2026
Our government is failing every single American by making us less safe. Repealing regulations that are a nearly century old on weapons and accessories that are, by definition, particularly useful to someone intent on inflicting the most harm possible is the very definition of the term “reckless.”
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Limits on certain firearms, silencers lifted for some in Texas
The Trump administration declined to immediately appeal a ruling by a federal judge in Lubbock that invalidated parts of the 1934 National Firearms Act.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 15/08/2026
Back to school shouldn’t mean back to shootings. Our leaders must act to prevent another campus from experiencing preventable trauma. America continues to fail our students by putting them at risk of gun violence in the very places where they should be safe. My heart is with the VSU community.
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Five shot outside dorms at Virginia State University days before classes begin
The five victims were transported to hospitals, and one initially listed as having life-threatening injuries has been upgraded to critical condition, county police said.
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Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradyunited.org · 14/08/2026
Short-barreled rifles, shotguns and silencers can now be bought without federal registration. “DOJ had the opportunity to act to protect our safety, but it failed to do so. Today, the gun industry and silencer dealers are celebrating, while Americans are left less safe.” —Brady President Kris Brown
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Trump’s DOJ allows Prohibition-era National Firearms Act to lapse
“At midnight, uniquely lethal weapons and devices ... were deregulated for the first time in nearly a century,” Brady President Kris Brown said.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 14/08/2026
As you’re getting ready for the first day of school, I have a few items to add to your checklist in my latest Substack post ✏️ 🗒️ 🚌
krisbrownofficial.substack.com
Back-to-School Safety Guide: Questions Every Parent Must Ask
Teaching kids to hide is not a substitute for prevention. Adults must prevent danger.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 13/08/2026
DHS referencing these shock gloves as nonlethal “de-escalation” tools for ICE raises an obvious question: an alternative to what? Without addressing officer training, oversight, and a culture of excessive force, an electric shock glove is just another weapon officers can use with cruelty.
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ICE plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves
The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 13/08/2026
Great news for would-be mass murderers and gun industry shareholders. Terrible news for everyone who would like to go to school, work, church, or the grocery store without being gunned down. These folks have a strange definition of “freedom.”
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Lets Parts of the National Firearms Act Lapse
The retreat by the Justice Department effectively allowed a pillar of the Prohibition-era National Firearms Act to lapse.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 12/08/2026
A mother and her 4 young children are dead because a dangerous man had access to a gun. This is the second horrific case like this in the midwest in as many weeks. How many women and children have to die before more action is taken to disarm abusers?
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‘A very tragic day’: 4 children, woman killed in Winfield shooting; suspect also dead
Five victims and a male suspect are dead after a shooting in Winfield, Kansas. The KBI and Winfield police are investigating.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 10/08/2026
There have been 293 mass shootings already this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. What do our leaders have to be proud of exactly? The same people who claim to protect freedom are looking the other way while our children are being shot and killed. We are not free.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 10/08/2026
Trump wants to spend another $1.4 Billion to keep the National Guard in DC until 2029. This political theater has been analyzed by multiple organizations and found to have little to no effect on rates of violent crime that were already on the decline. These are not serious people.
apnews.com
Guard deployment to Washington into 2029 will cost roughly $1.4B, estimate shows
The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 09/08/2026
As the largest institutional purchaser of firearms, governments have power to shape the market. When governments don’t align practices with commitments, everyday taxpayers end up funding gun violence. More here about how Brady is working to change procurement practices in Chicago and beyond.
chicagotribune.com
Kris Brown: Taxpayers can end up funding gun violence. Chicago is trying to stop it.
Chicago is using the power of public procurement to raise the standard for responsible firearm sales.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 07/08/2026
Last week, Colin Gray, the father of the Apalachee High School shooter who killed four people, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. But if the conversation about this preventable tragedy ends with Colin Gray’s sentencing, we’ve missed the real lesson. Subscribe to Locked & Unloaded today.
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The Lesson of the Apalachee Shooting and Colin Gray’s Sentencing: Preventing Gun Violence is Easier Than We Think
Safety doesn’t start in the aftermath of a crisis, it starts with firearm access
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 06/08/2026
Americans aren’t asking to be less safe. But a few extreme individuals are forcing their dangerous agenda on the rest of us, no matter the body count. This isn’t a win for the next victims of gun violence this decision will help create. But hey, Profits First, right?
nytimes.com
Federal Judge Weakens The National Firearms Act
The National Firearms Act mandated a permitting process for short-barreled rifles and shotguns, as well as suppressors. A judge ruled that the provision was unconstitutional.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 05/08/2026
BREAKING: A court just struck down longstanding registration requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns. These are highly regulated tools and weapons that have been regulated for nearly 100 years, or since the National Firearms Act (NFA) was enacted in 1934.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 05/08/2026
Is Mike Johnson implying that there are so many members of Congress committing domestic violence all the time that he can’t possibly keep track?
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 05/08/2026
What you should know about Chuck Edwards resigning from Congress in the middle of the night is that there are still 2 men in Congress who have been credibly accused of abuse by multiple women: Max Miller and Cory Mills And what did Mike Johnson have to say? He called these “domestic events.”
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 04/08/2026
I get that the gun industry is interested in feeding its bottom line, that much is clear. But we should all be interested in prevention that saves lives instead of waiting for the next mass shooting to happen.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 04/08/2026
Assault weapons are the weapon of choice for most mass shooters because they are designed to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible. Weapons of war have no place in our communities.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 04/08/2026
If our takeaway from Twin Falls is more guns everywhere, which is profitable for the gun industry, we’re taking away the wrong lesson. The immediate question is why this dangerous person had access to a weapon of war in the first place. 🧵
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 04/08/2026
Funny how this administration can suddenly find millions for gold statues but can’t find the money for gun violence prevention programs that save lives. Families who lost their loved ones to gun violence are being shown where the administration’s priorities really are.
elledecor.com
Trump Unveils 23K Gold Statues in Washington, D.C.
The $5.1 million project is restoring four historic statues near the Lincoln Memorial.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 03/08/2026
Max Miller should drop out of his race, and Republicans should be stating so publicly, on-the-record. There is no place in Congress for Max Miller or anyone who has been credibly accused of domestic violence.
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Trump allies push president to call on Max Miller to drop out amid abuse allegations, sources say | CNN Politics
Allies of Donald Trump are pushing the president to encourage embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller to drop his reelection bid, according to four sources familiar with the matter, amid claims of domest...
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 03/08/2026
Guess who profits from this administration’s rollback of lifesaving gun violence prevention policies? Yep, the Trump family. Read my latest Newsweek op-ed
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Gun deaths are falling. Trump is about to reverse that. | Opinion
Our country’s historic progress to reduce gun crime and homicides hangs in the balance and we cannot relent.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 03/08/2026
We aren’t safe in a guns everywhere America, not even at a drive-thru. The Twin Falls shooter is believed to have used an assault-style rifle, a weapon of war that has no place in our communities. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased and injured and the Twin Falls community.
nytimes.com
Gunman Acted Alone in Idaho In-N-Out Attack, Authorities Say
An off-duty state trooper and private citizen returned fire and are credited with slowing the 24-year-old shooter.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 02/08/2026
We should focus on Rep. Max Miller’s reported armed abuse of his ex-wife and daughter, and the best way to do so, is for everyone, including his father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, to call for his immediate resignation.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 01/08/2026
We fought for, and achieved, record progress in saving lives. Now Trump wants to undo all of that and put millions of lives at stake. Guns will be more likely than ever to end up in the hands of gun traffickers, domestic abusers, and children. Read my latest in @newsweek.com
newsweek.com
Gun deaths are falling. Trump is about to reverse that. | Opinion
Our country’s historic progress to reduce gun crime and homicides hangs in the balance and we cannot relent.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 31/07/2026
The Apalachee shooter’s father gave his son a semiautomatic rifle AFTER police visited their home in response to a mass shooting threat made by his child. This defies all comprehension and now, 4 people are dead. Accountability for reckless and irresponsible behavior must be our standard.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 31/07/2026
As Little House on the Prairie returns for a new generation, it reminds us that responsibility has always been part of the American story. The pioneers of the 19th century treated firearms with meticulous, survival-driven care. Today’s families can do the same. Read my latest Substack post ⬇️
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Netflix's ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Reboot Reminds Us What We've Forgotten About Gun Safety
Responsible firearm storage was part of everyday life for frontier families. With over 7 million children in America living in homes with unlocked guns, we need that reminder today.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 30/07/2026
Colin Gray’s prison sentence is about accountability and prevention. When adults leave firearms unsecured, the results can be catastrophic. Safely storing your gun stops gun violence before it happens. Four people should be here. This sentence won’t bring them back but it should be a wake-up call.
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Georgia Father Is Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for His Child’s Mass Shooting
Colin Gray's sentencing comes at a time when more parents of school shooters are being held to account for their child's actions.
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 30/07/2026
Elon Musk believes you can just buy your way out of any problem. But he and Trump can’t buy their way out of the exhaustion & fear that Americans feel about gun violence in their communities. They can’t buy their way out of unpopular and deadly policies including arming convicted domestic abusers.
thedailybeast.com
Musk’s Massive Midterm Plot to Rescue Trump Revealed
The world’s richest man is hoping to plug a gaping enthusiasm gap among Republicans.
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