Our Mission
Safer Country is dedicated to keeping guns out of unsafe hands, with emphasis on high-risk people and the background check system.
All over the nation, violent convicted felons are not being entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). For example, according to the Virginia State Police, 55,000 convicted felons in Virginia have not been entered. In 2017 the FBI failed to respond in the required three days to background check requests over 300,000 times, allowing potentially dangerous people to buy guns.
Our Challenge
The federal government and many states are failing to act sufficiently to prevent people who pose a real threat to our society from buying and owning guns.
Our Work
To educate policy makers and the public about ways to protect everyone from gun violence and demand transparency in government to help achieve our goals.