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.

A new administration is about to be inaugurated, and hope should reign supreme. Yet much of the media and political focus for 2021 and beyond is already focused on potential disagreements, gridlock and deadlocks.