Eileen McCarron Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Director Eileen McCarron has received the Fields Wolfe Memorial Scholarship Fund’s Pathfinder award for her decades of work on gun violence prevention in Colorado. The Award was given at the Fund’s 20th Anniversary Gala on July 26. The Fields Wolfe Memorial Scholarship Fund honors CSU alumni Javad Fields and Vivian
The grim accounting continues to roll in regarding the Trump Administration’s catastrophic cuts to gun violence prevention funding. The latest report from Reuters shows that Trump has terminated more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in
Ceasefire invites you to RSVP now for the Fields Wolfe Memorial Scholarship Fund’s 20th Anniversary Courageous Citizens Award Gala, Saturday, July 26 at the Denver Botanic Gardens. The event commemorates the enduring legacy of Vivian Wolfe and Javad Marshall-Fields, whose lives were tragically taken in 2005. Their memory lives on through the Fields Wolfe Memorial
In the wake of a July 3 drive-by shooting in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, in which at least 18 people were shot and four killed, supporters of Illinois’s SB2279, the Responsibility in Firearm Legislation (RIFL) Act, have published an opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune. In it, the authors say that while the state of
Brady’s This is Our Lane initiative has launched an advertising campaign calling on pediatricians, primary care practitioners, and healthcare professionals to bring conversations about gun safety into patient care and the exam room. The campaign directs users to a resource guide with evidence-based best practices, conversation scripts, and tips on how to have unbiased gun
A new tool is available to help health professionals understand ERPOs and how they can help save lives. KMGH reported on the Office of Gun Violence Prevention’s launch of the new curriculum at the end of June. The site explains how to petition a court for an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO), and to raise
A Federal judge last week dismissed a suit brought by survivors of the 2022 Club Q shooting, saying that while the law left him little choice, El Paso County Commissioners’ and former County Sheriff Bill Elder’s “collective role in refusing to at least try to thwart what most likely was a horrific but preventable tragedy
Some good news: Gun homicides in both Colorado and Denver are significantly down for the first six months of 2025, even below pre-pandemic levels, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive. The GVA collects data from media and police reports, and is not ‘official’ government information. According to preliminary numbers, the first six
The U.S. Senate Tuesday passed Donald Trump’s budget bill, which will cost 17 million Americans their health insurance and drive up the cost of care across the board; imperil hospitals and other health providers; reduce and eliminate food assistance for millions of people including children, veterans, and other vulnerable Americans; terminate millions of jobs; spike
Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee on June 26 signed legislation that bans the sale of certain military-style weapons in that state. The law (2025-S 0359A) bans the manufacture, purchase, sale, or transfer of military-style weapons, including certain types of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. It allows current lawful owners to possess these firearms and also allows
