Corporations have the responsibility to make their places of business safe from guns. They also have the influence to change policy and culture to improve our safety everywhere. It's time to use our power by shopping with businesses that deserve our dollar by standing up for our safety—and demand action from those that don't.
We first began researching the intersection of corporate policy and gun violence prevention in 2019. Inspired by similar projects like the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, we put that research in the format of scorecards to evaluate which businesses were aligning their corporate policies to gun violence prevention and launched three different campaigns to evaluate industry efforts to protect consumers from gun violence: Is Your Bank Loaded?, Deadliest Places to Grocery Shop, and Business Must Act.
These research campaigns allowed us to engage corporate leaders, leading to tangible change, including the end of handgun and handgun ammo sales at Walmart, and Walmart and Subway banning open carry in their stores.
In 2024, we consolidated these campaigns to make the information more accessible. We are currently updating the scoring criteria and engaging with over 20 partners to make the campaign more usable for corporate leaders that want to do their part to end gun violence.
You can access the scorecard and sign on to our action letter through the button below.
Corporations have the responsibility to make their places of business safe from guns. They also have the influence to change policy and culture to improve our safety everywhere. It's time to use our power by shopping with businesses that deserve our dollar by standing up for our safety—and demand action from those that don't.
We first began researching the intersection of corporate policy and gun violence prevention in 2019. Inspired by similar projects like the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, we put that research in the format of scorecards to evaluate which businesses were aligning their corporate policies to gun violence prevention and launched three different campaigns to evaluate industry efforts to protect consumers from gun violence: Is Your Bank Loaded?, Deadliest Places to Grocery Shop, and Business Must Act.
These research campaigns allowed us to engage corporate leaders, leading to tangible change, including the end of handgun and handgun ammo sales at Walmart, and Walmart and Subway banning open carry in their stores.
In 2024, we consolidated these campaigns to make the information more accessible. We are currently updating the scoring criteria and engaging with over 20 partners to make the campaign more usable for corporate leaders that want to do their part to end gun violence.
You can access the scorecard and sign on to our action letter through the button below.
