According to the Virginia Public Access Project, Everytown for Gun Safety has spent over $1 million during this election cycle on Democratic candidates and committees.
The outsize push for gun reform in the state, an unusually focused agenda for national interest groups, comes after a gunman stormed a municipal building in Virginia Beach in May. The shooter, a longtime city employee, killed 12 people and injured several others. He was himself killed in a firefight with police officers responding to the scene.
Since then, large amounts of money have continued to roll into the state, attempting to influence next week's elections which will pit many incumbents against a slate of gun violence prevention advocates endorsed by groups such as Everytown. Giffords, Everytown and other groups are hoping they can outmatch the political clout of the NRA, which has traditionally acted as a firewall against transient pushes for gun control.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords arrives at the 2020 Gun Safety Forum hosted by gun control activist groups Giffords and March for Our Lives at Enclave on October 2, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nine Democratic presidential candidates are taking part in the forum to address gun violence one day after the second anniversary of the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas when a gunman killed 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
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