FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 16, 2022CONTACT: Sydney Montstream-Quas, RICAGV Board Chair, sydney@ricagv.org On Tuesday night the Rhode Island Senate passed three critical gun safety bills that will soon make their way to Governor McKee’s desk to be signed...
Well over 400 people gathered to hear from high school and college students at the RI March for Our Lives Rally at the RI State House. The speakers were amazing and the attendees brought along powerful signs that are in accord with the large majority of Rhode...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, June 10, 2022CONTACT: Sydney Montstream-Quas, RICAGV Board Chair, sydney@ricagv.org STUDENTS TO SPEAK AT MARCH FOR OUR LIVES RALLY Providence, Rhode Island (June 10, 2022) — The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, June 10, 2022CONTACT: Sydney Montstream-Quas, RICAGV Board Chair, sydney@ricagv.org We are hearing that Democratic members of the House of Representatives are seeking to amend the Large-Capacity Feeding Device Ban of 2022 (House Bill No....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 7, 2022CONTACT: Sydney Montstream-Quas, RICAGV Board Chair, sydney@ricagv.org The Rhode Island House Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary have scheduled three critical gun-safety bills for...
We can end gun violence! The South Kingstown Town Council has declared June 3rd to be GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY. A rally and walk in support of this proclamation and action on gun safety measures will take place on June 3rd at 6 p.m. We will gather at the...
Over 200 supporters attended the Campaign for Gun Violence Prevention RI (CGVPRI) press conference at the RI State House yesterday to demand votes for five common-sense gun safety bills that have been “held for futher study” for years. Diana Garlington,...
We are very grateful to the key organizations who partnered with us in the Campaign for Gun Violence Prevention, Rhode Island, to ensure that every organization with a stake in this outcome was working from the same playbook. Coalition building is hard work, but real...
In the 18 incidents that included Large Capacity Magazines (LCMs), 371 were killed and 715 were wounded, with hundreds more suffering non-gunshot injuries. Almost all of these massacres occurred in minutes, with shooters firing dozens and, often times, hundreds of...
Lobby Day 2023March 23, 2023
