Five Months After Oct. 1st Shooting, Rep. Kihuen Continues Push For Broad Gun Violence Prevention Agenda

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Today, five months after the horrific and heartbreaking tragedy in Las Vegas on October 1, Representative Ruben J. Kihuen reiterated his dedication to enacting legislation to reduce gun violence.

"The events in Parkland, Florida, and the overwhelming number of mass shootings that have taken place around the country, leave us no choice but to act with tireless determination to protect our children and families from senseless gun violence. These tragedies have become unfortunately commonplace in our society, but we are not powerless to prevent them from occurring in the future," said Rep. Kihuen. "Our collective anger should spur us to action, and we should not let those whose failures have created conditions that allow gun violence to permeate our schools, churches, concerts, and movie theaters to continue to block commonsense prevention measures."

Rep. Kihuen is personally invested in solving this crisis, working with his colleagues in the House and Senate to find bipartisan solutions to address gun violence. He introduced the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act in April of last year and has cosponsored more than a dozen bills aimed at curbing gun violence. This legislation includes banning bump stocks like those used in the Las Vegas shooting, giving family members of individuals who may pose a danger to themselves or others tools to prevent gun violence, and authorizing the Center for Disease Control to research firearms safety and gun violence. In addition, Rep. Kihuen has penned multiple letters to the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee calling for a hearing on the use and legality of bump stocks.

A full list of Rep. Kihuen's gun violence prevention legislation is below:
H.R.2033
Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
H.R.1478
Title: Gun Violence Research Act
H.R.3947
Title: Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act
H.R.3999
Title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the manufacture, possession, or transfer of any part or combination of parts that is designed and functions to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but does not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machinegun, and for other purposes.
H.R.4052
Title: Keep Americans Safe Act
H.R.4168
Title: Closing the Bump-Stock Loophole Act
H.R.4240
Title: Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2017
H.R.5087
Title: Assault Weapons Ban of 2018
H.R.2598
Title: Gun Violence Restraining Order Act of 2017
H.Res.367
Title: Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention.
H.R.1612
Title: Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2017
H.R.1832
Title: To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.

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