Believes gun violence is an issue, disproportionately affecting people of color.

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• Supports passing universal background checks, limiting magazine size and banning military-style assault weapons.

• He wants to focus on supporting gun violence survivors.

• He wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post in 2022 about how he changed his previous stance. In 2012 after Sandy Hook, he supported“honoring Pennsylvania’s deep-rooted hunting culture” by not supporting restrictions on gun sales or increased regulations, but now supports assault weapon bans and increased background checks. 

Supports the second amendment 

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• Is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believes law-abiding citizens have an individual right to own firearms for self-defense, hunting, collecting, and sport-shooting, for any lawful reason, and neither Congress nor the states can take that away. 

• Believes issues with school violence require putting money into school security officers and that mental health programs need to be increased. 

• Believes in increasing law enforcement and more rigorous background checks to not sell guns to people with a criminal record.

Supports upholding the Second Amendment

• Wants to reduce government overreach and believes gun control is part of that

• Believes in the constitution as it was written and believes guns of any kind are included in that

• Believes in allowing people to make their own decisions when buying guns, and not letting the government choose.

Believes in gun ownership, to an extent 

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• Believes in allowing guns to be bought an owned

• Wants to ban assault weapons 

• Believes in enforcing universal background checks and waiting periods

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