Mayor Barrett and Common Ground Announce City of Milwaukee Joining National Gun Safety Consortium
Common Ground leaders stood by Mayor Tom Barrett as he signed into law a resolution to have the City of Milwaukee join the National Gun Safety Consortium and pay $10,000 in dues. “We are working together to tackle the issue of unsecured guns,” stated Rev. Rob Ater of Immanuel Presbyterian Church and the Common Ground Strategy Team. “We want to recognize Mayor Barrett for his leadership on this.”
Common Ground, and its Metro IAF affiliates across the country, are organizing mayors and police chiefs to promote the development, distribution and use of gun security products that gun owners will actually use. Conventional gun locks and safes are seen as too slow or unwieldy to unlock in an emergency. Consequently, over 50% of gun owners do not regularly lock up their firearms.