Pro Bono Assistance for Lawyers Bringing Gun Cases

The Legal Action Project is a national public interest law program dedicated to reducing gun violence. The Project seeks to achieve reform of the gun industry by providing pro bono legal representation to individual victims of gun violence and legal assistance for attorneys bringing lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and owners. The Project also assists in the defense of reasonable gun laws when they are attacked in the courts.

Project attorneys provide a full range of free assistance to government attorneys defending gun laws against lawsuits brought by the gun lobby. The Brady Center also enters key cases as amicus curiae ("friend of the court"), filing legal briefs joined by police organizations and community groups with special concerns about gun violence. We also pursue legal remedies against government officials who fail to carry out their duty to enforce life-saving gun laws.

• Protecting Legislative Victories
  The Project's work has been critical to the legal defense of the Brady Law, as well as numerous state and local laws banning assault weapons and "Saturday Night Special" handguns, against legal attacks funded by the NRA and the gun industry.

• Upholding Handgun Safety Regulations
  Our amicus curiae briefs helped to convince the Massachusetts courts to uphold the State Attorney General's first-in-the-nation safety standards for handguns against a lawsuit brought by the gun industry.

• Ensuring that Public Officials Enforce the Law
  California led the Nation in passing the first state law to ban military-style assault weapons. We won a lawsuit to stop California's Attorney General from violating that statute by allowing assault weapon owners to keep their guns, even after they had illegally failed to register them. Because of this ruling, over 1,600 of these killing machines were taken off the streets.

For more information please contact The Legal Action Project at:
The Legal Action Project
1225 Eye Street, Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 289-7319