Family members of some of the Pulse attack victims and survivors  are channeling their grief into legislative action against firearms.

  • Families, survivors of Pulse attack calling for assault weapons ban
  • Petitioning Congress for legislative reform
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Amanda Alvear snapchatted her last moments at Pulse night club.

“She used to love going to the nightclub," said mother Mayra Alvear. "'Mommy this is a great place. I am going with my friends and we all have a great time.'”

Alvear says June 12, 2016 is a day she does not want to ever relive.

“The life of my daughter and everybody else's’ is irreplaceable,” Alvear said.

Alvear drives from Tampa to Kissimmee every Thursday to get together with the family members of other Pulse victims.

“Seeing his friends there be killed, you know it's not easy," said Rosemary Ramos. "You see that everyday and every night when you go to sleep, when you wake up. You only sleep a couple of hours and that’s it.”

For them it’s a coping mechanism. But now they want to do more than just sit and talk. They’re fighting for gun law reform.

“We want justice for them," Alvear said. "We don't want this just to be forgotten, we want to fight for our kids.”

They even created a video, asking congress to ban military assault weapons. They specifically talk about the AR-15 rifle, a semi-automatic rifle based off a military weapon. While the AR-15 has been a primary weapon in many recent mass shootings, it was not used in the Pulse attack.

That weapon was the Sig Sauer MCX, a semi-automatic weapon that can have assault-style variants.

“Finding a purpose and a reason for my daughter's death and all the other victim's deaths," Alvear said. "Finding a way to do something for them.”