2025 Advocacy Priorities
Where We Stand
The American College of Physicians believes that injuries and deaths due to firearms are a public health issue. ACP calls for common-sense legislation that will help to keep patients safe by keeping guns from people who pose a threat, banning the sale of assault weapons and bump stocks, and requiring that firearms and ammunition be stored safely and securely.
Policies
- Firearm-Related Injury and Death in the United States: A Call to Action From the Nation's Leading Physician and Public Health Professional Organizations 10/2019
- ACP Summary of 2018 Position Paper Update on Reducing Firearms-related Injury and Death 1/8/2019
- Reducing Firearm Injuries and Deaths in the United States: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians 11/2018
Related Advocacy Resources
Latest Advocacy Efforts
- StatementACP Supports the U.S. Surgeon General Firearms Advisory on the Public Health Crisis of Firearm Violence in the United States 6/25/2024
- StatementInternal Medicine Physicians Discouraged by Supreme Court Decision that will Allow Bump Stocks 6/14/2024
- LetterJoint Letter Supporting Gun Violence Prevention Research Funding in Fiscal Year 2025 from Medical and Public Health Organizations to Congressional Appropriators 6/3/2024
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