Like so many others in the movement for gun safety, Representative Sara Jacobs knows that it’s time for Congress to stop playing politics with people’s lives. As the youngest member of California’s congressional delegation, Representative Jacobs is part of a new generation of leaders in Washington DC that are determined to end America’s epidemic of gun violence once and for all. In her first two terms in office, Representative Jacobs has been unparalleled in her determination to find commonsense ways to protect San Diegans from harm. 

In office, Representative Jacobs has served as a member of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and has worked to hold gun manufacturers and gun store owners accountable when their products are sold and used illegally. She has also wasted no time in signing onto legislation that would help save lives—including bills to expand background checks to all gun sales, combat illegal gun trafficking, and allocate additional federal funding for entities like the CDC and the National Institutes of Health to study gun violence as a public health threat. She supports extreme risk protection order laws and federal grants to community-based violence prevention programs that do critical work to support communities that are disproportionately affected by gun violence. As someone who recognizes the intrinsic link between gun violence and domestic violence, Representative Jacobs also voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act—and in 2022, she joined colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

With so much on the line this November, it is more important than ever that we reestablish a gun safety majority in the House—and this starts with reelecting gun safety champions like Representative Sara Jacobs. We know that she has the courage to act to end gun violence, and the people of Southern California deserve a legislator like her.

We are proud to endorse Sara Jacobs for the US House of Representatives.