More effective background checks

Create an effective background check system so that no one can purchase a gun without passing a completed background check.

• • Require point-of-sale background checks for all gun sales and finally close the private sale loophole, which enables prohibited people to buy guns simply by finding unlicensed sellers at gun shows or on the Internet.
  • Require every gun buyer to get a permit before making a purchase.
  • Use sales records to identify crime guns and notify local police when individuals have been prohibited from having a gun. A central system will let local authorities know when a gun owner has become barred from having firearms – due to a criminal conviction or a restraining order.
  • Allow for extreme risk screening before guns are purchased so that issuers would be equipped to deny licenses to troubled people who pose a danger to themselves or others.
  • Curb the dangers of downloadable guns and ghost guns by reversing Trump’s proposed firearm export regulations that loosen oversight of gun exports—and make it easier to publish 3D-printing gun blueprints online. And work to pass legislation barring online publication of those files.

Keep guns out of the wrong hands

Close loopholes, including one that prohibits married domestic abusers from possessing guns, but not unmarried ones.

• • • Close the “boyfriend loophole” which allows domestic abusers to have guns, despite criminal convictions or restraining orders—simply because they are not married to their victims.
    • Pass a federal red flag law that expands extreme risk orders to 50 states—and funds state efforts to maximize the policy.
    • Require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old to buy handguns and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
    • Set a temporary bar on gun possession by assault and other violent misdemeanor offenders.

Protect our children and communities by banning assault weapons, protecting schools, and preventing unintentional shootings

• • • Reinstate the federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
    • Require secure storage of firearms which have been shown to reduce the risk of child gun injuries by up to 85 percent. However, an estimated 4.6 million American children live in houses with an unlocked gun.
    • Ban all guns in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities – except for law enforcement.

Tackle daily gun violence in the hardest-hit communities

• • • Fund at least $100 million annually for local violence intervention programs.
    • Increase ATF funding by up to $100 million annually so that the Bureau is able to police the gun industry more effectively.
    • Fund at least $100 million annually for public health research into gun violence.
    • Require all gun buyers to wait at least 48 hours before any firearm purchase.
    • Make straw purchasing and trafficking stand-alone federal crimes, with serious penalties for offenders in order to help stop illicit sales.
    • Require all gun owners must report to police if their firearms have been lost or stolen, within 3 days after they know or should know that their guns are missing.

  Hold the Gun Industry accountable and elevate government’s response to the gun violence crisis

  • • Repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) so that gunmakers and gun dealers will no longer have broad immunity from civil lawsuits.
    • Allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to treat guns like other household products so that the federal government will have the power to set safety requirements for gun technology.
    • Formally declare the gun violence crisis to be a public health emergency to expedite funds and research.
    • Appoint a White House gun coordinator to mobilize the public to fight gun violence and launch an interagency hub to fight gun violence.
    • Focus executive energy on suicide reduction, school safety interventions, and corporate partnerships.