Tell U.S. Senators to vote NO on the Republican budget & tax bill that also increases gun violence! TAKE ACTION

Dear Friend,

It’s June, National Gun Violence Awareness Month. The most critical and timely thing everyone needs to be aware of this year – and at this moment – is that more gun violence is part of the ridiculously bad Republican budget and tax package due to be voted on in the U.S. Senate in a few short weeks.

Buried in the bill is an NRA-sponsored measure that would abolish the $200 tax on silencers that’s been in place since 1934. The bill would also end background checks and registration requirements for silencer purchases.[1] 

With guns already the leading cause of death for our children and young adults,[2] we don’t need silencers, which reduce the noise of a firearm, flooding into our communities and making our gun violence epidemic even worse.

SIGN NOW: Tell U.S. Senators to vote NO on the Republican budget and tax bill which, among other awful provisions like cutting health care for tens of millions of people, also increases gun violence by deregulating silencers.

Silencers are dangerous to our children and communities, and have no business being in a budget and tax bill. With silencers, imagine how much more lethal a mass shooting would be if the shooter could hide the sound of gunfire. With silencers, imagine how much easier any shooting could be concealed, vastly facilitating and encouraging armed crime. If you were near a shooting muffled by a silencer, how would you know to run? How would anyone, including law enforcement, know that a shooting is even happening without the sound of gunfire until long after the shooter has gotten away?

Let’s be clear – we are against this entire bad bill. While widespread use of silencers would make gun violence even worse, President Trump’s and Congressional Republicans' so-called “big, beautiful bill” is actually a big, bad betrayal of the American public: It makes deep cuts to Medicaid, taking away health care from millions, including the health care many victims need to recover from gun wounds. Every year, gun violence generates more than $1 billion in initial medical costs.[3] In addition, this bill slashes food stamps/SNAP, K-12 education, and child care funding,[4] all in order to give massive tax cuts to billionaires and wealthy corporations. It’s not big and beautiful. It’s awful, a betrayal of the American people, and deadly!

More gun violence with less health care is yet another reason for the U.S. Senate to block it. 

Tell U.S. Senators to vote NO on the Republican budget and tax bill, not least because it would increase gun violence by deregulating silencers.

With more guns than people, and more gun violence than all other peer countries combined, the United States is now the least-free wealthy democracy in the world. 

The pervasiveness of guns and gun violence is chipping away at our freedom to learn, play, worship, shop, and live in our communities without fear. Flooding our communities with silencers that conceal deadly gun fire would add to that fear exponentially. We say NO to the Republican budget and tax bill.

Please forward this message to everyone you know who agrees that gun violence is a public health emergency and ask them to sign on too, and to share their thoughts on the freedoms we are losing to gun violence.

In safety and community,

Gloria, Jessica, Elyssa, Kristin, and the entire MomsRising/MamásConPoder team

**IMPORTANT P.S.**
In addition to signing the petition, please share with us your thoughts about how the fear and worry of gun violence has impacted your life, either here or on the petition page. What freedoms and rights do you feel you have lost to the perceived Second Amendment right for anyone to own guns anywhere and everywhere, with no restrictions?

References:
[1] “The Secret Smoking Gun in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Budget,” Daily Beast, June 1, 2025.
[2] “New Report Highlights U.S. 2022 Gun-Related Deaths: Firearms Remain Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens, and Disproportionately Affect People of Color,” Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sept. 12, 2024.
[3] “The Health Costs of Gun Violence: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries,” The Commonwealth Fund, Apr. 20, 2023.
[4] “House Republican Reconciliation Bill Would Force States to Cut Food Assistance, Health Care, and Other Vital Services,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 3, 2025.

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