COMMON SENSE
SOLUTIONS
Across the United States, too many of our children and loved ones are impacted by gun violence. Mass shooting are commonplace and more people have died from gun violence in 2021 than any other year. Between March and November of 2020, 17.4 million guns were sold. In an average year, gun violence in America kills nearly 40,000 people, injures more than twice as many, and costs our nation $280 billion. America has a gun obsession.
Since I took office in 2019 we have had passed some incredibly important laws in Connecticut. We closed loopholes on safe storage of firearms in the passage of Ethan’s Law and allows school systems to offer firearm safety programs from PreK to Grade 12. We outlawed ghost guns which are made of polymer plastic and are manufactured without serial numbers. Finally, we passed an act prohibiting storing or keeping a handgun with a barrel shorter than 12 inches in an unattended motor vehicle if the firearm is not in the truck, a locked safe, or a locked glove box.
Sadly, this is not enough. Kids continue to have access to guns and are committing crimes, both property crimes and violent crimes. People are not locking their guns up and ending up in the wrong hands. Funding community based gun violence prevention programs are an important tool that work and need stronger investments.
CT’s strong gun laws help protect women from armed domestic abusers and we have a variety of laws that statistically reduce intimate partner gun homicides. Here is Connecticut, I am proud that we have some of the strongest gun laws in the country, but there is still much more that we can do to keep our children and communities safe and I look forward to doing everything I can on this issue.
As I have in years past I will continue to work with the Judiciary leadership to put forward a law that sets aside funding for a self-restriction registry to be built here in Connecticut. This would allow individuals, who feel that having access to a dangerous weapon would put themselves or their loved ones at risk, to petition to be put on a no-sell list.
Since I took office in 2019 we have had passed some incredibly important laws in Connecticut. We closed loopholes on safe storage of firearms in the passage of Ethan’s Law and allows school systems to offer firearm safety programs from PreK to Grade 12. We outlawed ghost guns which are made of polymer plastic and are manufactured without serial numbers. Finally, we passed an act prohibiting storing or keeping a handgun with a barrel shorter than 12 inches in an unattended motor vehicle if the firearm is not in the truck, a locked safe, or a locked glove box.
Sadly, this is not enough. Kids continue to have access to guns and are committing crimes, both property crimes and violent crimes. People are not locking their guns up and ending up in the wrong hands. Funding community based gun violence prevention programs are an important tool that work and need stronger investments.
CT’s strong gun laws help protect women from armed domestic abusers and we have a variety of laws that statistically reduce intimate partner gun homicides. Here is Connecticut, I am proud that we have some of the strongest gun laws in the country, but there is still much more that we can do to keep our children and communities safe and I look forward to doing everything I can on this issue.
As I have in years past I will continue to work with the Judiciary leadership to put forward a law that sets aside funding for a self-restriction registry to be built here in Connecticut. This would allow individuals, who feel that having access to a dangerous weapon would put themselves or their loved ones at risk, to petition to be put on a no-sell list.
