After a Deadly Onset of Mass Shootings in California, Giffords Publishes Recommendations to Save Californians from Gun Violence
Washington DC— After harrowing mass shootings in multiple California communities, Giffords published a new memo highlighting critical policies that leaders in California should prioritize to keep communities safe from violence.
Ari Freilich, Giffords State Policy Director:
“California’s communities need continued reform and focus on the most effective responses to the gun violence crisis—to provide as many tools to protect as many people as possible. California leaders have so often led the nation on gun safety reform. Communities across the state know all too well how much work there is still to be done. We look forward to working with our partners in the state on these key priorities for making all Californians safer and freer from gun violence in all its devastating forms.”
In the memo, Giffords recommends 10 key areas of focus for legislation, oversight, and improved implementation of California’s gun safety laws, including:
- Creating a permanently dedicated gun violence prevention and victim recovery fund through a modest fee on the corporate weapon industry’s record windfall profits.
- Strengthening California’s public carry laws to respond to the US Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling, which threatens to introduce a flood of loaded weapons in public spaces.
- Strengthening the state’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System and firearm relinquishment efforts to more effectively recover firearms from people who become legally disqualified from keeping them.
- Strengthening firearm access restrictions for people who have been subject to domestic violence and other court restraining orders and improving coordination and utilization of all of California’s firearm-prohibiting restraining orders.