1. Enacting Universal Background Checks The fact that you have to a background check at a licensed dealer, but not when you buy online, at a gun show or out of someone’s trunk is absurd. Everyone must be cleared by a background check.
2. Robust Enforcement of Mental Health Record Reporting There little to
no enforcement of mental health record reporting to state and federal databases, allowing
those with severe mental illness to easily acquire guns. Current research has found millions of mental health records were missing from our state and federal databases.
3. Prohibiting Domestic Abusers from Purchasing Firearms American women are 16 times more likely to be shot and killed than women in other developed countries. Tragically, over half of the women killed with guns in the U.S. are murdered by their partners. Common-sense laws will protect victims and save lives
4. Closing the Open Carry Loophole This loophole allows guns to be openly carried in our gun-free zones: schools, daycare centers, places of worship, bars, stadiums
and other sensitive areas. It has lingered for decades under failed leadership.
5. Enacting a Red Flag law to ensure we're able to help our loved ones in their time of need. Red flag laws can save lives by allowing family members and law enforcement to act before warning signs escalate into tragedies. Most of our gun-related deaths are suicide. A red ag law will not only help us prevent the next school shooting, it will help
us protect our loved ones in their darkest hour.
6. Establishing a Child Access Prevention Law to hold those who don't safely and responsibly secure their rearms from children accountable. Even Texas has this law on
the books. We’re one of only nine states that don’t. Every day, a child takes their life with
a gun. 500 American children die by gun suicide every year. It doesn’t have to be this way, children in other high-income countries are over 90% less likely to die by gun suicide.
7. Banning large-capacity magazines, bump stocks and assault weapons. Our communities are not theaters of war.