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The Call to Global Action September 2026
Dear GAGV,
GAGV just celebrated its 4th Anniversary, and you helped make all our successes possible. Over that time, we have been driven by our mission to stop crime guns and save lives through pioneering litigation, human rights advocacy, and global research.
And that drive never stops!We invite you to join us for a webinar on September 24 to learn about how the U.S. gun industry fuels gun trafficking across our borders as we release a hard-hitting report: U.S. Gun Policy, Global Harm: Cross-Border Gun Trafficking from the Great Lakes Region. Details below!
Thank you again for making all our life-saving work possible. I hope to see you later this month at the webinar. Read on!
Sincerely, Jon Lowy Founder & President
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GAGV Celebrates its 4th Anniversary Thanks to You!
Global Action on Gun Violence hasaccomplished so much in just four years.
Join us on Thursday, September 24 at 1pm ET to learn more about how the U.S. gun industry and weak gun laws fuel violence in the U.S. and around the world—and how we can fight back.
We will be discussing our upcoming report, U.S. Gun Policy, Global Harm: Cross-Border Gun Trafficking from the Great Lakes Region. We take a close look at a critical trafficking corridor: the Great Lakes region to Canada.
The findings are alarming. Eighty-five percent of crime guns traced in Canada originated in the United States. The report shows how gaps in U.S. laws and gun industry practices help make trafficking to Canada and other countries possible.
We will also talk about a roadmap for action and take your questions. Stopping gun trafficking at its source can save lives—in the United States and around the world.
GAGV Proposes New International, Legal, and Public Health Strategies to Stop IndustryContribution to Gun Violence
The U.S. gun industry plays a driving role in fueling gun violence and gun trafficking, but this factor is often left out in discussions of gun violence as a public health crisis, according to Professor Arturo Carrillo of George Washington University Law School and Jon Lowy in a recent article in the Emory International Law Review.
In Two Heads are Better Than One: Integrating International Law and Global Public Health Approaches to Firearm Violence to Promote Public Safety and Human Rights, they argue that gun manufacturers and dealers use business practices that allow firearms to reach criminal markets, contributing to deaths, injuries, and trafficking.
In addition, the gun industry knows that safer manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and sales practices could reduce these harms, but have not made changes, pursuing profit over lives. That means our work to create pressure and incentive for the gun industry to change its practices—and make those changes last—is critical.
We propose combining two approaches to do this:
Public health: Examine the gun industry through the concept of the “commercial determinants of health”—how companies' business practices and products can negatively affect public health, and;
International human rights law: Apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which considers how companies’ actions affect fundamental rights, including the rights to life, security, and health.
Combining public health and international human rights law could provide stronger tools for holding the gun industry accountable. It can also create new opportunities for research, advocacy, and action to reduce gun violence in the United States and throughout the Americas.
From Second Class to Super Right: How the Second Amendment Devoured Property Rights
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Wolford v. Lopez this past June was a gut punch — and Jon’s latest Substack pulls no punches in explaining why. The Court struck down Hawaii’s sensible law requiring concealed-carry permit holders to obtain the express consent of property owners before bringing firearms onto their land.
The result: guns are now presumptively welcome in restaurants, shops, and other privately-owned public spaces across the country, stripping property owners of their right to set their own rules without posting a sign.
In his Substack, Jon explains how Wolford is the consequence of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Heller (2008) and Bruen (2022). Those rulings transformed the Second Amendment from a protection for state militias into an individual super-right that now overrides the property rights and safety interests of everyone else.
GAGV filed an amicus brief in Wolford laying the foundation for the Court to reverse Heller and Bruen — the only major gun violence prevention group to take that position.
GAGV, we need support for this epic fight! Please go to the arrow above the newsletter to share this with family and friends who care about ending gun violence! Thank you!
