Issue Position: Keeping Our Families Safe from Gun Violence

Issue Position

As someone who has experienced the tragic loss of family members to gun violence, Jennifer has made fighting for commonsense gun safety laws a top priority.

Tragic mass shootings like those in Las Vegas, Parkland and Sandy Hook were carried out by using deadly, military-style assault rifles. Jennifer opposes the NRA and their extreme agenda. She introduced legislation to fight the flow of guns onto our streets and was proud to co-sponsor the "Fix the FOID Act," which expands background checks to all firearm purchases and strengthens the background checks for FOID card applicants by requiring fingerprint submissions. It also requires coordination between the Illinois State Police and local law enforcement to ensure that individuals who have lost their FOID card privileges surrender their guns when necessary.

Jennifer also sponsored legislation that would require firearm owners to carry liability insurance, creating a path to compensation for loss in the event someone is accidentally injured or killed. As with automobile liability insurance, firearm liability insurance shifts the burden of cost and responsibility away from victims. The same legislation also explicitly bans insurance from covering deliberate criminal acts and/or costs associated with criminal prosecution.

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