Our Executive Director, Mathew Littman, appeared on Spectrum News | Inside The Issues to discuss how 97Percent is working to unite Americans around gun safety.

Our Executive Director, Mathew Littman, appeared on BBC to discuss the 8th mass shooting in California in 8 days.

Our Executive Director, Mathew Littman, appeared on CNN to discuss the mass shootings in California and what can be done to prevent these tragedies.

Just weeks after a mass shooter killed five people in North Carolina’s capital city, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will take center stage at a conference for a new political group that aims at finding areas of bipartisan agreement on the national debate over guns and the Second Amendment.

Report shows gun owners are largely concerned about firearm violence, but support for reform depends on the details. 97Percent, a firearm safety organization composed of both gun owners and non-gun owners, found that 70 percent of gun owners want to help reduce firearm violence in the U.S., Politico reports.

Gun legislation is a polarizing topic — especially on the campaign trail, where it is a longtime staple of attack ads on candidates from both parties. But voter attitudes about gun policy aren’t as divided as they seem, according to a study first shared with POLITICO.

A report released Wednesday from 97Percent, surveyed 1,078 gun owners nationwide to examine their perceptions of specific gun safety policy details.

A report released Wednesday from 97Percent, a bipartisan group of gun owners and non-gun owners that conducts research on gun safety policies, surveyed 1,078 gun owners nationwide to examine their perceptions of specific gun safety policy details. The study found broad support among gun owners for laws that aim to keep people at high risk of violence from gaining access to guns.

John Goodwin is not the stereotypical gun-safety advocate. He owns several shotguns that he uses to hunt birds. He’s also a former lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. But a relatively new organization is recruiting people like Goodwin to join the fight for gun safety. The group, 97percent, was created in 2019 as a bipartisan home for those who believe in Second Amendment protections and moderate gun restrictions. Goodwin is one of more than a dozen advisers who include a former president of the Brady advocacy group, ex-lobbyists for the National Rifle Association, and former Republican and Democratic members of Congress

“[97Percent] promotes pragmatic gun-policy reforms — with a twist: Their principal goal is to engage gun owners in the conversation. In polls and focus groups, they say they have found that gun owners are more amenable to reforms than most Americans believe. To make real progress on the issue, they argue, gun owners must be at the table."

Our profile in The Washington Post Magazine features our unique vision of identifying and expanding areas of consensus among gun owners and gun-reform proponents.

Our Executive Director, Mathew Littman, appeared on CNN with Paula Newton to discuss the Senate’s recent bipartisan gun safety legislation, red flag laws, and NRA members’ support for background checks

Our Executive Director, Mathew Littman, appeared on Spectrum News' "Communities in Crisis: Coast to Coast Gun Violence" to discuss background checks & red flag laws: their support among gun owners and how they can help reduce the 45K deaths from guns per year.

Board member & former NRA lobbyist Abra Belke poignantly recounts how negotiations fell apart on Capitol Hill following Newtown. She tells Reveal how now with 97Percent, she's focused on getting gun owners in the same room with lawmakers and on areas that should be apolitical.

“Gun owners believe in background checks, but they’re not advocating for them. We need gun owners to get to the table. That’s the missing piece here” - our Executive Director on BBC to discuss how to propel gun reform forward.

"When the laws are written, gun owners need to be at the table. Whatever we've been doing until now has not worked." Our Executive Director, Mathew Littman, joined CNN to talk about approaching solutions differently in the wake of yet another mass shooting.

Our Executive Director, Mathew Littman, joined CNN to talk about the Buffalo shooting & red flag laws: what they are, how they're not used enough because many don't know they exist & what our research revealed about gun owners' support for them.

The Bipartisan Background Checks Act (H.R. 8), which passed in the House a year ago, would expand federal background checks to unlicensed dealers (such as on the internet marketplace and gun shows) and establish consistent regulations across the country. The fact that this common-sense law hasn't even gotten a vote in the Senate in a full year proves that it's time for a different approach. If we want to make progress toward solving at least one facet of America's enduring gun violence problem, it's time to bring new voices into the fold: gun owners themselves.

2021 saw a spike in gun violence that surpassed even the 2020 surge. At least 12 major U.S. cities broke homicide records, police departments nationwide seized record numbers of illegal guns, and mass shootings like the tragedy at Michigan’s Oxford High School continue to dominate headlines.