Editing Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (section)

==History==
In 1974, the United Methodist [[General Board of Church and Society]] formed the '''National Coalition to Ban Handguns''',<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Harry L.|author-link=Harry L. Wilson|title=Guns, gun control, and elections|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2006|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gunsguncontrolel0000wils/page/145 145]|isbn=978-0-7425-5348-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/gunsguncontrolel0000wils|url-access=registration|access-date=2009-03-27}}</ref> a group of thirty affiliated religious, labor, and nonprofit organizations, with the goal of addressing "the high rates of gun-related crime and death in American society" by requiring licensing of gun owners, registering firearms, and banning private ownership of [[handguns]]. "Reasonable limited exceptions" were to be allowed for "police, military, licensed security guards, antique dealers who have guns in unfireable condition, and licensed pistol clubs where firearms are kept on the premises."<ref>{{cite book|last=Carter|first=Gregg Lee|title=Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2002|pages=395|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_RrLyV9rDUC&pg=PA395|access-date=2009-03-27|isbn=978-1-57607-268-4}}</ref><ref name="Kates_TN_L.Rev.">{{cite journal |title=Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda? |author1=Don B. Kates |author2=Henry E. Schaffer |author3=John K. Lattimer |author4=George B. Murray |author5=Edwin  H. Cassem |year=1994 |journal=Tennessee Law Review |volume=61 |pages=513–596 |quote= "The position of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns  is very clear... [We support]  ban[ning] the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns, except for police, military, licensed security guards and pistol clubs."  Michael K. Beard, testimony on behalf of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns  in support of 8-132 Before the Committee of the Judiciary 3 (Mar. 22, 1989) (transcript on file with the ''Tennessee Law Review'';...}}</ref> In the 1980s and 1990s, the coalition expanded to 44 member groups.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carter|first=Gregg Lee|title=Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2002|pages=396|isbn=978-1-57607-268-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_RrLyV9rDUC&pg=PA396|access-date=2009-03-27}}</ref>

In 1989, following the [[Cleveland Elementary School shooting (Stockton)|Cleveland Elementary School shooting]] in Stockton, California, the National Coalition to Ban Handguns changed its name to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, in part because the group believed that [[assault weapons]] as well as handguns, should be outlawed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Goss|first=Kristin|author-link=Kristin Goss|title=Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2006|pages=[https://archive.org/details/disarmedmissingm0000goss/page/112 112]|isbn=978-0-691-12424-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/disarmedmissingm0000goss|url-access=registration|access-date=2009-03-27}}</ref>

In 2022, the EFSGV merged with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy to become the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.<ref name=IW />