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45 protestsabout guns in the last 12 months

The research record (Crowd Counting Consortium) runs through May 31, 2026; it's published a few months after the fact. Protests since then come from organizers' public listings on Mobilize and community reports, which are less complete and lean toward groups that use Mobilize. About the data

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Protests
45About 1 a week
People who turned out
1,050–1,227 Sum of crowd estimates for the 16 protests that have one
States & territories
22 Most in California (4)
Most protested issue
Gun control Main issue at 39 protests

Week by week

Protests per week, colored by the main issue. Spikes are national days of action.

  • Guns

What people protest

Protests per issue. A protest with several demands counts toward each.

Who protests what

Share of each issue's protests whose claims were coded left- or right-leaning, from most left to most right. Lean describes the demands, never the people.

  • Left-leaning
  • Neither or mixed
  • Right-leaning

Where

Protests per million residents (2020 Census), which evens out big and small states.

Who they target

The agency, company, official or body each protest's demands were aimed at.

Most active organizers

Groups listed as organizers, by number of protests in this view.

OrganizationRelative activityProtests
Moms Demand Action
Guns, group
5
Indivisible
Guns, group
4
Brady
Guns, group
3
Students Demand Action
Guns, student
3
Grassroots4GVP
Guns, group
2
50501
Guns, group
1
American Civil Liberties Union
Guns, union
1
CeaseFirePA
Guns, group
1
Chedrick Greene for State Senate
Guns, group
1
Derek Tran for Congress
Guns, other
1

How it went, from people who were there

No firsthand reports for these protests yet. When people who were there add a report, how it went (tone, police presence, arrests) shows up here.