WELCOME TO THE UPDATED ORANGE COUNTY BRADY CHAPTER BLOG

Saturday, February 27, 2016

We welcome you to our BLOG that is written for the benefit of our friends and supporters of our Orange County Chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.  Additional information may also be found on our National Brady Campaign Website as well as the California Brady Chapters Website.

Our Chapter believes that knowledge is power and an informed and educated grassroots is a powerful tool for the prevention of gun violence.  We hope that you will find the topics (pages) listed helpful.  This is a work-in-progress BLOG and we will continue to add to it and welcome your comments and suggestions.  

Now is a busy time as our 27 California Brady Chapters together with our state leaders of the California Brady State Council have just decided on our priority legislation.  We respectfully request that you write letters of support and then Fax or email them to the author of the bill.  The supported priority bills are currently listed in today's Bill page.  Please consider asking an organization (faith-based, community, civic, etc.) in which you belong to write a letter of support for our priority bills on the organization's letterhead.  I will try to offer sample support letters for your convenience.  

Later on when floor votes, or sometimes important Committee votes, are coming, our chapter and/or State Council President will send out alerts for you to contact your legislator.  Not sure who represents you?  Please see the page where the Orange County Electeds are listed with contact information.

In peace,
Mary Leigh Blek,
Editor

HISTORIC ACTION BY PRESIDENT OBAMA ON GUN SAFETY POLICY

January 04, 2016

IN THE NEWS

EXPANSION OF BRADY BACKGROUND CHECKS CENTERPIECE

OF PRESIDENT’S EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON GUN VIOLENCE

History will be made in the East Room of the White House tomorrow when President Obama formally announces a series of executive actions to curb gun violence. The most significant of these actions is the clarification of who is “engaged in the business of selling guns” which will result in the expansion of Brady background checks to the thousands of commercial gun sales that happen every day in our nation without them. The announcement comes after the Brady Campaign provided specific policy recommendations to the highest levels of the Administration, including a recent meeting between Brady President Dan Gross and Obama Special Advisor Valerie Jarrett.