March 14, 2018

Today Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District released the following statement on the National School Walkout.  

“Today at the Capitol, I rallied in solidarity with the students, victims, and advocates from across the nation who all mobilized to send a message: We will not be ignored. In ten days, we will do it again during the March for Our Lives, and we will continue for as long as necessary. The young people walking out of their classrooms today demonstrate that inaction is not an option and callousness is not acceptable. As a former professor, I believe that we need fewer guns in classrooms and more measures to keep firearms out of dangerous hands. As a Las Vegan, I believe that we must do all we can to prevent tragedies at concert venues, schools, churches, and the countless locations where lives were prematurely taken because of senseless gun violence. When will Republicans say enough is enough?”

DINA TITUS GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION LEGISLATIVE WORK:

• Sponsor of Amendment to H.R. 38 to strike Concealed Carry Reciprocity language from the underlying bill.
• Original cosponsor of H.R. 4477; Bipartisan Fix NICS Act to strengthen federal agency reporting to the NICS system and incentivize states to provide better information to the NICS system.
• Sponsor of H.R. 4168; the Closing the Bump-Stock Loophole Act, bipartisan legislation to regulate bump stocks, and similar devices, in the same manner as we do machine guns.
• Cosponsor of H.R. 1478; Gun Violence Research Act, legislation to strike the “Dickey Amendment” which prevents CDC research that recommends actions to prevent gun violence.
• Cosponsor H.R. 4025; the Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act, which requires reporting on the purchase of multiple semi-automatic weapons over a short period of time in the same manner as we currently require for handguns.
• Original cosponsor of H.R. 4052; the Keep Americans Safe Act, which bans high capacity magazines.
• Cosponsor of H.R. 4020; the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act, bipartisan legislation to require background checks on all commercial firearm sales.
• Cosponsor of H.R. 3947; the Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act, a bill to ban bump stocks and similar devices.