Where does your church stand on gun rights? This is a list of mainline American Christian church bodies and their websites. I performed searches at each site using the word “guns” or “violence” and have provided a link to those results.
Ratings:
F = Anti-gun. These churches have official statements supporting more stringent gun control.
D = Leans anti-gun. No official statement or resolution, but church officials have written articles in support of gun control.
C = Adiaphora. These churches have no official position.
B = Leans Pro-gun. No official resolution but website features articles/posts supporting self-defense.
A = Pro-gun. Official statements or resolutions supporting gun rights. Openly pro-gun.
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| F | National Council of Churches of Christ | http://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/common-witness/2010/gun-violence.php |
| F | United Church of Christ | http://www.ucc.org/search_results?q=gun |
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| LUTHERAN | ||
| F | Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America (ELCA) | http://search.elca.org/Pages/Results.aspx?k=gun |
| C | North American Lutheran Church (NALC) | http://thenalc.org/?s=gun |
| C | Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) | https://www.lcms.org/search?q=gun |
| C | Wisconsin Evangelical Synod (WELS) | https://wels.net/?s=guns |
| C | Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America | http://eldona.org/?s=gun |
| C | Apostolic Lutheran Church of America | http://www.apostoliclutheran.org/?post_type=post&s=gun |
| C | Church of the Lutheran Brethren | http://www.clba.org/?s=gun&submit=Search |
| C | Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ | http://www.lcmc.net/ |
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| METHODIST | ||
| F | United Methodist Church | http://www.umc.org/search/gcse?q=gun |
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| PRESBYTERIAN | ||
| C | Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) | |
| F | Presbyterian Church in USA (PC-USA) | http://www.pcusa.org/search/?criteria=gun |
| C | Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) | |
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| BAPTIST | ||
| D | Southern Baptist Convention | http://mail.erlc.com/article/letter-to-president-obama-re-gun-control |
| F | American Baptist Churches USA | http://www.abc-usa.org/?s=guns |
| C | Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America | |
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| CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN | ||
| C | National Association of Congregational Christian Churches | |
| C | Conservative Congregational Christian Conference | |
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| AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL | ||
| C | AME Church | |
| C | AME Zion Church | |
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| ANGLICAN | ||
| F | Episcopal Church | http://www.episcopalchurch.org/search/site/gun |
| Anglican Church in North America | http://www.anglicanchurch.net/index.php/search/results/79bf1f6b768256a5b91474f30460f9dd/ | |
| Anglican Mission in the Americas | https://theamia.org/?s=gun&lang=en | |
| Reformed Episcopal Church | http://www.rechurch.org/ | |
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| CATHOLIC | ||
| American Catholic Church in the United States | http://www.accus.us/ | |
| D | American National Catholic Church | http://americannationalcatholicchurch.org/?s=gun |
| Augustana Catholic Church | http://www.augustanacatholicchurch.co/home.html | |
| The Liberal Catholic Church | http://www.thelccusa.org/ | |
| Orthodox Catholic Church of America | http://www.orthodoxcatholicchurch.org/ | |
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| UNITARIAN | ||
| F | Unitarian Universalist Association | http://www.uua.org/search?as_q=gun#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=gun&gsc.page=1 |
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| EASTERN ORTHODOX | ||
| C | The Orthodox Church in America | https://oca.org/search |
| C | Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America | http://www.antiochian.org/ |
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| ANABAPTISTS | ||
| Church of the United Brethren in Christ | http://www.ub.org/ | |
| F | Mennonite Central Committee | https://mcc.org/search/site/gun |
| F | Church of the Brethren | http://www.brethren.org/search.html?q=gun |
| D | Brethren in Christ U.S. | https://bicus.org/2016/05/guns-city-streets/ |
Churches and websites based on this list from Wikipedia.