Everytown For Gun Safety

Everytown for Gun Safety, the country’s largest gun violence prevention organization, has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to hear the federal government’s appeal of an erroneous decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that calls into question wide swaths of federal law prohibiting possession of firearms by dangerous people.

The brief, prepared for Everytown by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and filed late yesterday, urges the Supreme Court to grant a writ of certiorari to review the Third Circuit’s unworkable opinion in Binderup v. Attorney General. If left intact by the Supreme Court, the opinion by the Third Circuit would impose overwhelming burdens on the background check system, the courts and federal and state prosecutors.