Survivors and family members of victims from the Pulse nightclub shooting are launching a political action committee Wednesday with the help of some local leaders.

  • The new group is called Pride Fund to End Gun Violence
  • Group wants to end mass shootings like the terror/hate attack at Pulse

Their goal is to get new gun control measures passed in Congress.

The political action committee (PAC) is called Pride Fund to End Gun Violence.

Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, along with the pro-LGBTQ newspaper, Watermark, and Pulse survivors and family members of victims will form this PAC.

“There is no reason that our hospitals should have to be turned into mass units, there is no reason our city streets should have to be turned into warzones, gun violence in this country has become an epidemic,” Sheehan said on July 12.

The group's mission is to raise funds for candidates at the national level who support LGBT issues and gun policy reforms.

They say they want to make sure there are no more mass shootings like the one at Pulse, which killed 49 people and injured more than 50 others. The shooter, Omar Mateen who pledged to ISIS during a police standoff, was also killed in the standoff.

The Pride Fund to end Gun Violence officially launches Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at The Hammered Lamb in Orlando.