The 900-page misogynistic manifesto contains a radical “guns everywhere” agenda.

If you followed the Democratic National Convention last week, you heard themes of hope, freedom, and unity. You also almost certainly heard about Project 2025—Trump’s dystopian plan for a second term. In speech after speech at the convention, advocates and representatives condemned the extremist worldview outlined in Project 2025, from its promise to abolish artificial insemination to its attacks on racial equality and LGBTQ+ youth. (In an instantly iconic moment, Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow even brought a giant, hardback copy of Project 2025 onto the convention stage.)

Politicians are right to sound the alarm. If the 2025 project were to go ahead, it would have devastating consequences for women, families and feminists everywhere. Voters – and especially women voters – must be aware of these threats.

But while Project 2025’s plans on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights have rightly sparked outrage, lurking within its pages is another, lesser-known threat to women, families and communities: a radical “guns everywhere” agenda.

The following is at stake:

First, Project 2025 explicitly calls for more guns in schools. Specifically, it would support arming teachers with concealed weapons and hiring veterans, retired police officers, and other trained gun owners as armed guards. This would flood our schools with firearms and force our teachers to become armed guards – all of which would put our children’s safety at risk.

The presence of guns in schools has already led to teacher and staff suicides by firearm, and there are documented cases of accidental discharges. As a mother, I know what it feels like to live in fear that your child will be injured or killed by a gun in the classroom. We all – no matter who we are – have the right to raise our children in a safe environment free from gun violence.

Project 2025 would also dangerously weaken federal oversight of the gun industry and limit the ability of our nation’s top law enforcement agencies to stop the illegal gun trade. By moving the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from the Justice Department to the Treasury Department, Project 2025 would reduce the threat of prosecution for gun shops and sellers who violate the law. Simply put, it would make oversight of the sale of illegal or dangerous weapons nearly impossible, increase gun trafficking, and make gun crimes harder to solve.

As gun crime rates increase, women – and especially women of color – are hit hardest.

Research shows that women of color are disproportionately affected by gun murders: While 2,600 women are killed in gun murders each year, women of color account for 61 percent of those deaths – despite making up only 40 percent of the total population. When gun crime increases, women – and especially women of color – are hit the hardest.

Eroding control over the gun industry would also increase gun smuggling across our southern border, despite Trump’s hypocritical fearmongering on immigration. We know that the majority of guns seized in Mexico, El Salvador, Belize, and Honduras come from the United States. Thanks to the Biden-Harris administration’s historic bipartisan Promoting Safer Communities Act, the Justice Department has now filed 280 cases and counting against those who smuggle guns to transnational drug cartels. If the ATF is separated from the Justice Department, this coordination will become impossible.

Finally, Project 2025 promises to pass a law reciprocating concealed carry law – rolling back strict federal gun safety measures and increasing the risk of gun violence for everyone, no matter where you live.

Does your community want to keep loaded and concealed weapons out of parks, grocery stores, or daycare centers? If the project is implemented in 2025, that won’t be possible.

Has your state adopted universal background checks, red flags, and secure storage requirements? If Project 2025 is implemented, that progress will be undone.

Importantly, states are making progress in restricting access to guns for people with domestic violence restraining orders—a law that has led to a 16 percent reduction in domestic partner homicides with firearms. We know domestic violence is deadly, and that’s especially true when there’s a gun in the home. The mere presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the likelihood that a woman will be killed by five times. There’s a reason firearms are the most commonly used weapon in domestic violence homicides. Female domestic partners are murdered with a gun more often than by all other means combined.

As a mother, I know what it feels like to live in fear that your child will be injured or killed by a weapon in the classroom.

Kris Brown, President of Brady United Against Gun Violence

While Project 2025’s gun regulations may have gone unnoticed, its extremist, pro-gun vision is clear. If Trump and his legislative allies get their way, ghost guns will flood our communities in unregulated gun markets, and the Justice Department will be forced to get a handle on gun smuggling beyond our southern border. Schools will be filled with armed teachers and security guards, and so-called “self-defense laws” will be twisted to fuel a national, government-backed “shoot first, ask questions later” mentality.

Gun violence is front and center in this election. Recent polling from the Brady Campaign found that gun violence is the third most important issue for voters right now. In fact, 80 percent of parents fear their child’s school could be the scene of a mass shooting just before school starts. But we can change course. This Election Day, voters can choose between a deadly America where the shots are fired first, or a nation where we feel safer from violence.

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