Dear NY State Lawmakers,

We can do more to end the gun violence epidemic in New York State. As your constituents, we urge you to pass the following bills:

• New York State Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Act (S.1049): Evidence-based hospital and community-based violence intervention programs have been proven to reduce the number of shootings in our communities. This budget bill would create stable NY state funding for these programs. 
• The Jose Webster Untraceable Firearms Act (S.14/A.613) and the Scott J. Beigel Unfinished Receiver Act (S.13/A.2666): These bills would ban the manufacture and sale of unserialized guns and unfinished receivers - the untraceable “ghost guns” that can be assembled at home and trafficked by people who would not pass a background check.
• Microstamping Ammunition (S.4116): This bill requires semiautomatic pistols manufactured or sold in New York to be microstamped--a technology that stamps an alpha-numeric code onto a gun’s cartridge case--a key tool for law enforcement’s ability to trace crime guns. 
• Right to Sue Gun Manufacturers (S.1048): The gun industry is too often shielded from liability despite the fact that guns are taking the lives of over 40,000 Americans a year. This would create a right to sue gun manufacturing companies, defining illegal guns as a “public nuisance."  
• The Solutions Not Suspension Act (S.0767/A.1981): This law would help end the school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately impacts Black and Brown students by requiring training for school safety officers, reducing punitive discipline and requiring restorative justice practices.