Gun Safety
As a mom of three, I drop my kids off at school every day wondering if they’ll make it home safely. Gun violence is a problem we don’t have to live with. That’s why I’m fighting to:
- Preserve our existing landmark gun safety laws. Unlike my opponent, I have always supported strengthening gun safety legislation with “red flag” laws, waiting periods, and safe storage requirements to keep firearms out of children’s hands.
- Ensure kids can’t access handguns. There is more we can do to ensure the safe storage of firearms, including increasing safety training requirements for gun owners.
- Establish a waiting period for all gun sales. Waiting periods have been shown to reduce gun deaths by suicide and homicide, and are an important precaution to prevent impulsive acts of violence involving firearms.
Compare to Didi Barrett’s record:
During her decade in office, Barrett has voted with Republicans against most of New York’s landmark safety gun measures, including:
- A thirty-day waiting period for someone to buy a gun until they’ve passed a background check.
- A “red flag” law to keep guns out of people’s hands who may do harm to themselves or others.
- “Nicholas’s Law,” to require safe storage of guns out of the hands of children, which she voted against twice.
- Preventing people convicted of domestic abuse from owning guns, which she also rejected twice.
- The right for shooting victims to sue the gun lobby.
- A requirement that all semiautomatic pistols sold in New York be microstamp-enabled.
