March for Our Lives, the gun-reform organization born out of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, will bring its nationwide voter registration tour to metro Atlanta in late July.
The bus tour will stop in more than 75 places across the country, including in Atlanta on July 29 and in the Roswell and Sandy Springs area on July 30.
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Specific times and locations for the local stops have not yet been released.
Student activists involved in the tour are holding voter registration drives in an attempt to reach young adults, including the estimated four million Americans who turned 18 this year and will be able to vote in upcoming elections. The students will talk about their goals to change gun laws by banning high-capacity magazines, requiring universal background checks and fund gun-violence research, among other reforms the group supports.
The group said it picked places to visit that are represented by politicians who have received financial contributions from the National Rifle Association.
The first tour stop took place June 15 in Chicago.
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