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Philadelphia, PA — CeaseFirePA Education Fund’s new analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive for 2025 shows that gun homicides in Pennsylvania fell 46.5% since their 2022 peak. In 2025, 495 people died in Pennsylvania from gun homicides — a 15% decline from...
Brady, CeaseFirePA urge Pennsylvania leaders to leverage state-based gun dealer inspections to curb flow of guns into criminal markets and address dangerous reduction by the Trump administration of investigating and prosecuting gun trafficking
CeaseFirePA today applauded the passage and signing of Pennsylvania’s 2025-26 state budget, which delivers an increase funding for community violence intervention (CVI) programs.
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives today passed a bill closing loopholes in the state’s background check law, while measures to create Extreme Risk Protection Orders and ban untraceable firearms and “Glock switches” failed.
The legislation includes bans on machine-gun converters, as well as strengthening background checks and establishing Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs).
This week again demonstrated the ugly, traumatic relationship this country has with gun violence. Our attention and the media’s focus lurched from the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah to a shooter firing at a school in Colorado later that day. And it...
York City Council voted on Tuesday night to ban machine gun converters, such as Glock switches. These inexpensive, easily obtained devices can turn a handgun into a machine gun capable of firing up to 800 rounds per minute.
CeaseFirePA calls for Senate to return and support the increase
A coalition of more than 140 organizations, faith leaders, health professionals, educators, local elected officials, violence prevention practitioners and others from across Pennsylvania have signed and delivered a joint letter urging the state legislature to...
Democratic members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives sent a letter to their chamber’s leadership calling for a $101.5 million investment in violence prevention initiatives.
