- Voted for legislation to enhance and improve the background check system for gun purchases.
- Longtime champion for repealing the Dickey Amendment, which prevents the federal government from using funds to study gun violence.
- Leading efforts to ensure federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), can study ways to reduce gun violence.
- Supports ‘red flag laws’ to remove guns from dangerous situations.
- Cosponsored legislation to ban assault weapons.