Washington, DC — The New York Times reported yesterday that 145 Corporate CEO’s are sending Senate leaders a letter urging them to pass expanded gun control laws.

[WE’VE PRINTED THE NAMES OF THE COMPANIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STORY]

The letter, which will be delivered today, was signed by companies including Levi Straus, Twitter, Airbnb, Pinterest, Lyft, Gap, DoorDash, Royal Caribbean and more. Two financial companies are also on the list: Thrive capital and Bain Capital.

Interestingly, Bain Capital was co-founded by Republican Mitt Romney of Utah.

Many of the companies listed are names that the average American wouldn’t recognize because they don’t interact with that company on a regular basis.

But of course, adding their names made the list of names seem even longer.

The letter pushed for expanding background checks to apply to all gun purchases—a Universal Background Check.

The claim is that our current background checks have stopped over 3 million ineligible buyers from purchasing guns, but it “doesn’t reflect how people purchase guns today.”

They want every transaction tracked by the government, even if it’s just a Grandfather giving a gun to his grandson, or a buddy giving his favorite shotgun to his friend.

The letter also pushed for passing the very controversial “Red Flag Confiscation” laws.

They laud the good that could come from Red Flags, without ever addressing what happens to Due Process or to half of the Bill of Rights.

They also don’t deal with what happens when people are Red Flagged for frivolous personal reasons.

Finally, they don’t acknowledge that there are already mental health laws on the books in every state.

These laws allow the police to detain and even commit somebody whose mental health makes them a threat to themselves or those around them.

But no, we’ll just take mentally unstable people’s guns away and then they’ll be totally harmless!

The Fake Victory:

Several of the CEO’s interviewed crowed about the ‘changing culture’ and how many Americans now support gun control efforts like Red Flag laws.

The New York Times went on to claim that notably missing names like Facebook, Apple, Google and others were not on the list in part because they were worried that gun owners would accost their employees.

What a joke.

These corporations think that because they have lots of money, they somehow should have lots of influence over our laws and lawmakers.

Not only that, but the crush of regular American citizens at gun stores after every shooting decry their leftist polls indicating American’s don’t want guns anymore.

Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, Head of Community and CEO , Airbnb

KeithMestrich, Presidentand CEO , Amalgamated Bank

John Connaughton and Jonathan Lavine, Co-Managing Partners, and Josh Bekenstein and

Steve Pagliuca, Co -Chairmen, Bain Capital

Ethan Brown, Co-Founder and CEO , Beyond Meat

Peter T. Grauer, Chairman , Bloomberg LP

Ric Clark , Chairman, Brookfield Property Group

Fritz Lanman, CEO , ClassPass

Roger Lynch, CEO , CondÃ©Nast

Ken Lin, Founder and CEO , Credit Karma

Edward Stack , CEO, DICK ‘S SportingGoods

Tony Xu, Co -Founder and CEO , DoorDash

Doug Baker, Chairman and CEO , Ecolab

Richard Edelman, President and CEO, Edelman

Julia Hartz, Co-Founder and CEO , Eventbrite

Art Peck, CEO ,Gap Inc.

Eddy Lu, CEO GoatGroup

Ben Lerer, Co -Founder and CEO, Group NineMedia

Yannick BollorÃ©, CEO, Havas Group

BillKoenigsberg, President, CEO and Founder, HorizonMedia

Patrick O . Brown,MD, PhD, Founder and CEO , Impossible Foods

MichaelRoth, Chairman and CEO , Interpublic

Rob Frohwein, Co-Founder and CEO , and Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder and President,

Kabbage Inc. and Drum Technologies

Chip Bergh, President and CEO , LeviStrauss & Co.

Logan Green, Co-Founder and CEO, and John Zimmer, Co -Founder and President, Lyft

Dev Ittycheria, Presidentand CEO , MongoDB, Inc.

HowardMarks, Co-Chairman, Oaktree CapitalManagement

Todd McKinnon, Co -Founder and CEO, Okta

John Wren , Chairman and CEO , Omnicom Group

Ben Silbermann, Co- Founder and CEO, Pinterest

Bastian Lehmann, Co-Founder & CEO , Postmates

Hamid R . Moghadam , Chairman and CEO , Prologis

Arthur Sadoun, Chairman and CEO , Publicis Groupe

Steve Huffman, CEO, Reddit

Richard Fain , CEO , RoyalCaribbean Cruises Ltd.

ScottRechler, Chairman and CEO , RXR Realty

Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO , Shutterstock , .

Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square and Twitter

Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO, Squarespace

Zander Lurie, CEO, SurveyMonkey

AriannaHuffington, Founder and CEO , Thrive Global

Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, and Jim Alling, CEO , TOMS

Jeff Lawson, Co-Founderand CEO Twilio

DaraKhosrowshahi, CEO , Uber

Mark Read CEO, WPP

JeremyStoppelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Yelp

Organizations with fewer than 500 employees:

Kevin P . Ryan , Founder and CEO , AlleyCorp

Travis Truett, Co-Founder and CEO , Ambition

John W . Rogers, Jr., Founder , Chairman and Co -CEO , and Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO &

President, Ariel Investments , LLC

Mike Steib , CEO , Artsy

Sean Knapp, Co-Founder and CEO , Ascend

Andrei Cherny , Co -Founder and CEO , Aspiration

Abdur Chowdhury , CEO , Aura

Fahim M . Aziz , Founder and CEO , Backpack

Abrams, Chairman and Co-CEO, and Katie McGrath , Co-CEO Bad Robot

Ari Paparo , CEO , BeeswaxIO Corporation

Ryan Block , Co -Founder, Begin

John Borthwick , Founder and CEO , Betaworks

Raphael Crawford -Marks, Co -Founder and CEO , Bonusly

Darren Lachtman , Co-Founder , Brat

Trevor McFedries , CEO , Brud

Sameer Shariff, Co -Founder , Cambly

Analisa Goodin , Founder and CEO, Catch & Release , Inc.

Andrew Feldman , Founder and CEO , Cerebras Systems

George Favvas, CEO , Circle Medical

Alex MacCaw , CEO , Clearbit

Tyler Bosmeny , CEO , Clever

MattMartin , Co-Founder and CEO , Clockwise

Othman Laraki, Co -Founder and CEO Color Genomics

Jager McConnell, CEO , Crunchbase , Inc.

Apu Gupta , Co-Founder and CEO , Curalate , Inc .

David Oates , Co-Founder and CEO, Curtsy

Brian Ree , Founder and CEO , DAILYLOOK

Saurabh Ladha, CEO , Doxel, Inc.

Andy Coravos , Co -Founder and CEO , Elektra Labs

Laurene Powell Jobs, President, Emerson Collective

Pradeep Elankumaran , Co-Founder & CEO Farmstead

Desiree Gruber , CEO , Full Picture

Jared Hecht, Founder and CEO , Fundera

JudeGomila , Founder and CEO , Golden

Rick Nucci, Co-Founder and CEO , Guru

Kara Goldin , Founder and CEO , Hint, Inc.

Jeff Sellinger, Co -Founder and CEO , HipDot

Prerna Gupta , CEO , Hooked

Cyrus Massoumi,Managing Partner, humbition

Kristin Savilia , CEO , JOOR

Pierre Valade , CEO , Jumbo Privacy

William Martino, Founder and CEO , Kadena

Jake Perlman -Garr, CEO , Kanga

Warren Shaeffer, Co-Founder and CEO , Knowable

Jack Altman , CEO Lattice

Aaron N . Block , Co-Founder and Managing Director,MetaProp .

Afton Vechery , Co-Founder and CEO ,Modern Fertility

Dan Parham , Founder and CEO , and Tee Parham , Founder and CTO Neighborland

Shafqat Islam , CEO , NewsCred

Sarah Friar, CEO , Nextdoor

Athan Stephanopoulos , President, NowThis

Varsha Rao, CEO , Nurx

William E . Oberndorf, Chairman , Oberndorf Enterprises

Steven Rosenblatt , Co-Founder andGeneral Partner, Oceans

Nick Huzar, Co-Founder and CEO , OfferUp

James Segil , Co -Founder and President, Openpath

Jordan Husney , CEO , Parabol

Doug Aley, CEO , Paravision

John Milinovich , CEO , Plato Design

Rajat Suri, CEO , Presto

Christopher Gavigan , Founder and CEO , Prima

Adam Regelmann , Founder and COO , Quartzy

Nate Maslak , Co-Founder and CEO , andNate Fox, Co-Founder and CTO , Ribbon Health

Zachariah Reitano, Co-Founder and CEO , Ro

Gary Beasley , Co-Founder and CEO , Roofstock

Stephen Ehikian , Co -Founder and CEO , Ruist

Brian Schechter, CEO , SelfMade

Olga Vidisheva , Founder and CEO , Shoptiques Inc.

Dan Doctoroff , CEO , Sidewalk Labs

Jason Tan, CEO , Sift

Matt Cooper , CEO , Skillshare

Grant Jordan , CEO , SkySafe

Josh Guttman , Co- Founder and CEO and Florent Peyre, Co-Founder and President , Small Door

Michael Carvin , Co Founder and CEO SmartAsset

Aaron King, Founder and CEO , Snapdocs , Inc.

Neil Capel, CEO , Solve. io

Ben Hindman , Co-Founder and CEO , Splash

Evan Beard , Founder and CEO Standard Bots

Stanlee R . Gatti, Founder, Stanlee R . Gatti Designs

Bradford Oberwager, CEO , Sundia Corporation

Ross Feinstein , CEO , Sunlight Health

Paul Budnitz , CEO , Superplastic

Ron Conway , Founder , SV Angel

HeidiZak, Co-Founder and Co-CEO , and David Spector, Co-Founder and Co- CEO ThirdLove

Yashar Nejati, CEO , thisopenspace inc .

Joshua Kushner , Founder and Managing Partner, Thrive Capital

Chris Wang, CEO , ThunderCore Inc.

Corbett Kull, CEO , Tillable

Meghan Jewitt, CEO , Uniform Teeth

Nicholas Goldner , Co- Founder and CEO , and Christopher Bulow , Co-Founder and COO

Viosera Therapeutics

Ken Chong, CEO Virtual Kitchen Co

Irv Remedios, CEO , Voxer

Oliver Cameron , Co-Founder and CEO Voyage

Chase Adam , Co-Founder and CEO , and Grace Garey , Co-Founder and COO , Watsi

Liz Wessel , Co-Founder and CEO , WayUp

NeilWaller, CEO , Whalar

Bismarck Lepe, CEO , Wizeline

Dennis R . Mortensen , Founder and CEO , x .ai, inc.

Geoff Ralston, President, Y Combinator

Shan -Lyn Ma, Co -Founder and CEO Zola

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