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Gun Pulse: Swing state considers new gun control proposals

Nevada Democratic State Senator Julie Pazina proposed a bill raising restrictions on firearm purchases for those convicted of hate crimes by extending purchase bans for ten years.

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Similar proposals advanced last year but were vetoed by Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo. The bills have been vehemently opposed by Second Amendment advocacy groups. File Image.

Nevada Democrats unveiled three new gun control proposals, including regulations on when guns can be bought or where they can be taken, efforts that gun rights advocates are opposing.

 

Nevada Democratic State Assemblymember Sandra Jauregui introduced a proposal to ban firearms within one hundred feet of election site entrances, extending an existing ban on bringing firearms to school grounds and childcare facilities. The same lawmaker also unveiled a prohibition on those under twenty-one years old from purchasing semiautomatic weapons.

 

 

“This is about the lives of our children, our neighbors, our community, and our state,” she told local news. “Every time we hear about another mass shooting, another act of violence, another family grieving an unimaginable loss, we know that thoughts and prayers are not enough.”

 

Nevada Democratic State Senator Julie Pazina meanwhile proposed a bill raising restrictions on firearm purchases for those convicted of hate crimes by extending purchase bans for ten years.

 

 

Similar proposals advanced last year but were vetoed by Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo. The bills have been vehemently opposed by Second Amendment advocacy groups.

 

Randi Thompson, who manages the Nevada Firearms Coalition Political Action Committee, told local news that they will be working with Lombardo to offer “information on why these should be vetoed,” communicating to Nevada residents that the legislation has unintended consequences.

 

 

“If these are good bills, we’ll support them,” Thompson commented. “In 2015, we supported a lot of gun changes where we were working together with the opposition to come to an agreement.”

 

The efforts to pass additional gun control in Nevada come after the Nevada Legislature remained largely unchanged following the election last year. Democrats retained their majorities in both the Nevada Assembly and the Nevada Senate but lost their supermajority in the former.

 

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