As the mother of two school-age kids, Representative Jennifer McClellan understands that those in power need to act with conviction and urgency to protect our children from the dangers of gun violence. Having seen the devastating impacts of too many senseless shootings across the Commonwealth, she supports enacting comprehensive gun reforms to make communities safer for every Virginian. 

For Representative McClellan, all of Virginia’s gun deaths—more than 1,000 a year—are preventable. As a state legislator, she led the fight in the Virginia Senate to pass a bill that requires the reporting of lost or stolen firearms in 2020. In her nearly two decades in Richmond, she consistently took on the gun lobby’s dangerous practices and cosponsored laws to reinstate Virginia’s “one-gun-a-month” rule and to implement universal background checks across the Commonwealth. Representative McClellan also cosponsored legislation to allow localities to prohibit guns in certain public spaces and led a senate bill to establish a Center for Firearm Violence Intervention and Prevention to collect data and publish reports on violence caused by firearms. In Congress, Representative McClellan is a proud member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and has cosponsored legislation to designate June 2 as “National Gun Violence Awareness Day” and the month of June as “National Gun Violence Awareness Month,” as well as other measures to declare gun violence a public health crisis. 

In Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, Virginians have a true champion who will always put safety first. We must ensure she remains in Congress in 2025, where we know she’ll never stop fighting to strengthen our nation’s gun laws and keep communities safe from violence. With so much on the line this fall, it’s imperative that votes mobilize to reelect such a committed champion this November.

We are proud to endorse Jennifer McClellan for the US House of Representatives.