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Handgun-Free America, founded in 2002 as a non-profit, grassroots organization, is dedicated to eradicating the epidemic of handgun violence in America by reframing the debate on handguns. Our objective is to focus American citizens’ attention on the necessity for a complete ban on private handgun ownership. While we applaud the gun control community, its focus on gun safety and restrictions to gun ownership have had limited impact. Tens of thousands of Americans are still dying every year as a result of handgun accessibility. Clearly, gun safety and restriction measures are not enough.

Deaths by handgun are at epidemic proportions in the United States, and this epidemic is uniquely American. We stand alone in the industrialized world in permitting such widespread access to handguns. Handgun-Free America is taking a stand for banning private handgun ownership in America. To that end, our mission is nothing less than saving hundreds of thousands of American lives that would be needlessly lost in the future through handgun violence.