Closing Illegal Markets Is A Simple, Easy-To-Use Guide To Help Activists Garner Community Support, Media Attention

The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence is pleased to introduce Closing Illegal Markets: A Resource Guide for Advocates, a new booklet to help activists make the case for common sense gun policies, and attract media attention for their efforts. This booklet can be customized according to an advocate's policy goals, and is available free of charge from the Ed Fund.

Closing Illegal Markets: A Resource Guide for Advocates, designed in cooperation with renowned New York public relations firm The Corkery Group, was unveiled at the 8th Annual Citizens' Conference to Stop Gun Violence, sponsored by the Ed Fund in February. Each conference participant received the booklet, and a special training session was held on how to most effectively use it.

"We are pleased to offer this resource guide as a helpful grassroots
organizing tool," said Josh Horwitz, Executive Director of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. "And more importantly, we are pleased to offer trainings to activists across the country, to help them meet their policy goals."

The resource guide highlights effective policy goals that will close illegal gun markets, including closing the gun show loophole, universal background checks, and handgun licensing and registration. The kit is already in use in Virginia, Maryland, and Wisconsin, three states the Ed Fund is working with to further those policy goals.

Educational Fund staff members will lead training seminars at gun violence prevention conferences in the coming year upon request.

For a copy of Closing Illegal Markets: A Resource Guide for Advocates, please contact Amanda Boysen at 202-408-7560 Ext. 105. Due to a limited supply, the Ed Fund is limiting requests to five per advocate organization.