Global Action on Gun Violence

04/20/2026

Don’t miss your chance to be part of an unforgettable evening! Get your tickets today for GUAC, a dynamic one-man play and fundraising event for Global Action on Gun Violence on Saturday, May 16 at 8pm at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, California.

Get your tickets here: https://actiononguns.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F41095

ℹ️ Event: The one-man show, GUAC, a fundraiser for Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV)
🗓️ Date: Saturday, May 16
🕐 Time: 8pm
📍 Location: Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90323
🎟️ Ticket price: $80 ($40 student)

Tickets: https://actiononguns.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F41095

03/17/2026

"The Supreme Court has radically — and incorrectly — transformed Second Amendment law over the past two decades. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), the Court upended two centuries of settled jurisprudence and replaced the workable, balanced framework for litigating U.S. firearm regulations that the Framers intended with an ahistorical one that is rigid, illogical, and dangerous. There is no better example of how misguided current Second Amendment law is than United States v. Hemani, the case involving a ma*****na user’s challenge to the federal gun ban for drug users that the Court heard on March 2."

Read GAGV President Jonathan Lowy's article on Substack https://jonathanlowy.substack.com/p/guns-gummies-and-the-framers-how

03/09/2026

“What are the obligations of States in the area of human rights with respect to illicit arms trafficking?” The Inter-American Court of Human Rights just issued a first-of-its-kind opinion in response to request from Mexico.

1️⃣ Duty to regulate
States have a duty to domestically regulate arms manufacture, sales, and transport to prevent diversion of legal fi****ms to the criminal market.

2️⃣ Duty to Monitor Arms Companies
To ensure corporate due diligence, States should monitor “the due diligence, prevention, mitigation, and remediation plans adopted by companies to prevent their activities from affecting human rights.”

3️⃣ Duty to Guarantee Effective Judicial Remedies
States must ensure effective judicial remediation for victims of human rights violations, “whether committed by the State itself or by third parties.”

4️⃣ Duty to Cooperate Internationally
“In order to guarantee the rights to life and personal integrity... States have an obligation to cooperate, in good faith, in preventing illicit arms trafficking.”

A clear implication of the Court’s opinion is that the U.S. Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Law, which provides broad immunity from liability and litigation to U.S. fi****ms companies, may be in breach of international human rights law, by denying victims of gun industry negligence effective judicial remediation.

The Court’s opinion also suggests that the U.S. is obligated to do more to stop gun manufacturers and dealers from enabling the diversion of fi****ms to gun traffickers. This should require the U.S. to stop the 5% of gun dealers who sell 90% of crime guns, including over 70% of crime guns in Mexico, Haiti, Canada, Jamaica, and in countries throughout the Americas, and to stop gun manufacturers from supplying those bad-acting dealers.

📰 Learn more: https://actiononguns.org/press-release/inter-american-court-of-human-rights-issues-advisory-opinion-states-must-regulate-and-supervise-arms-companies-to-protect-human-rights/

📔 Advisory Opinion (Spanish):https://corteidh.or.cr/docs/opiniones/seriea_30_es.pdf

GAGV is registered under the FARA as an agent for the Governments of Mexico and the Bahamas. Additional information is available at the U.S Department of Justice, Washington DC.

03/05/2026

Alex Pretti's killing by federal agents in Minneapolis scrambled the usual gun debate fault lines and created a new opportunity for unity.

While some gun violence prevention advocates who have long attacked public gun carrying defended Pretti, many politicians who champion "gun rights" blamed him for his own death. Their deference to the administration's story that falsely blamed Pretti’s gun carrying for his killing tells you something important — for some, the 2nd Amendment is political spoils, not a real right.

Both sides can learn something here. Not all gun carriers are threats. Very few gun violence prevention advocates want to ban guns. And the right to live — protected by the Constitution — must constrain all other rights, including those of law enforcement acting without due process.

The killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good are tragedies. But they're also an opportunity for those on both sides of the gun debate to rethink old divisions and unite to defend our most foundational rights — to protest, to hold the government accountable, and above all, to live.

Read more: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanlowy/p/out-of-tragedy-unity-the-killings

02/06/2026

"The incident provides an opportunity for Americans to rethink old divisions and unite around our most fundamental rights, including the most fundamental -- the right to live."

The killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officials in Minneapolis are disturbing and enraging, as is the effort to defame and blame the victims, and to propagate false accounts of their deaths.