Giffords PAC Endorses Slate of Gun Safety Champions in Florida

Miami, FL – Today, Giffords PAC, the gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, endorsed incumbent Reps. Dan Daley and Andrew Learned, as well as candidate Lindsay Cross, for the Florida House of Representatives. Giffords PAC has previously endorsed slates of down ballot candidates in Florida in September and August. 

“With rates of violence spiking across Florida, it is critical that we have gun safety champions representing us in Tallahassee. This slate of champions will continue to push for stronger gun laws and fight back against attempts to weaken the progress that Florida has made in recent years. Giffords is proud to endorse Representatives Dan Daley and Andrew Learned for reelection and Lindsay Cross for election to the Florida House of Representatives. With their help, we will be able to push for more gun safety solutions and work towards securing ‘un futuro seguro’ for Florida’s children.”

• Representative Dan Daley (Incumbent, HD-96): State Representative Dan Daley is an alum of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has worked diligently to channel the pain of his community into action since he was first elected in 2019. In office, he has been a champion for gun safety reforms and always pushed for the passage of legislation to end the scourge of gun violence. In particular, Representative Daley has introduced numerous bills to honor the students whose lives were tragically cut short in the violent mass shooting in Parkland—including Jaime’s Law, which would institute background checks on all individuals purchasing ammunition. As a vocal opponent of permitless carry, Representative Daley knows that allowing anyone to carry a deadly weapon increases the risk of senseless gun violence and if reelected, he will do all he can to make sure this radical proposal does not become law.

• Representative Andrew Learned (Incumbent, HD-69): State Representative Andrew Learned has built a life on serving his community. As a naval officer, he has intimate experience with assault rifles and has seen the damage they can cause when they fall into the wrong hands. He carried an M-4 rifle on three deployments to the Middle East and while he needed an assault rifle for that job, he certainly doesn’t in his current job or in his kids’ school. As such, he co-sponsored HB 199, which would ban assault weapons and take a step towards preventing senseless gun violence in Florida. Representative Learned knows that commonsense gun safety legislation works, and he will do everything in his power to implement universal background checks and to close the dangerous loopholes in our law that put his constituents at risk. If reelected, Representative Learned will fight back against any efforts that would make Florida less safe—especially the implementation of permitless carry legislation, which would allow individuals to carry concealed firearms in public without a background check or having to go through a licensing process.
• Lindsay Cross (Candidate, HD-60): Lindsay Cross is an environmental scientist who has spent her career working to keep Floridians safe by protecting the state’s water and economy. If elected to the state legislature, she’ll continue this mission by working to pass comprehensive gun safety legislation to protect Florida communities from senseless violence. Cross knows that our legislators must do more to ensure that mass shootings and everyday gun violence are no longer a routine occurrence in the United States, and she’s determined to pass commonsense solutions like universal background checks in Tallahassee. In office, Cross will be a check on the dangerous power of the gun lobby, and she will oppose any efforts to expand concealed carry to schools or weaken Florida’s existing gun safety laws.

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