$997,923 and $372,315.

That’s how much the gun lobby spent on state and federal candidates in Washington in 2012 — and that’s not even counting their lobbying in Olympia, communicating directly with their members about legislation, or any other political work.

It’s a lot of money — but it’s nothing compared to what they’re prepared to spend to defeat anything that would help reduce gun violence in Washington, which is exactly what I-594 will do.

So, we’re going to need a lot of money to fight the gun lobby this fall — and one very special supporter, who wishes to remain anonymous, has offered to help us close that gap by matching every dollar we raise online from now until the end of April, up to $20,000.

Click here to contribute $3 before our deadline, and your gift will be DOUBLED!

The gun lobby has a lot of powerful friends, and they have nearly limitless piles of cash to both swing elections and lobby in Olympia and Washington. That can be a very powerful combination — it’s kept a lot of commonsense reforms from becoming law.

But what they don’t have is you, Carmen.

And they don’t have our thousands of supporters, or nearly 80% of voters who think that it’s long past time to apply our already existing background checks to all gun purchases in Washington.

Unfortunately, that won’t matter if our simple message is drowned out by the confusing and misleading ads, phone calls, and mailings that we KNOW are coming as it gets closer to November.

Contribute $3 before our A‌pril 3‌0 deadline, and your gift will go TWICE AS FAR towards making Washington safer from gun violence.

Together, we can make sure that Washington voters will know the truth about I-594, and come November, we’ll finally make progress toward reducing gun violence.

Thanks so much,

Tracy Newman
Finance Director
WA Alliance for Gun Responsibility