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NV assemblywoman optimistic about gun-control legislation

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Monday, March 10, 2025   

Nevada's Democratic lawmakers are trying again to advance gun-control legislation, including measures to ban firearms from election sites and prohibit anyone younger than 21 from purchasing or possessing a semiautomatic shotgun or assault rifle.

Asm. Sandra Jauregui, D-Las Vegas, said despite similar efforts falling to vetoes in 2023, it is an issue she will not stop fighting for. For Jauregui it is personal. She is a survivor of the 2017 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival, which claimed the lives of 60 people.

Gov. Joe Lombardo defended his veto of the polling place gun ban in 2023 because of a ghost gun provision he felt was unconstitutional. Jauregui pointed out this time around, that component isn't there.

"I am hoping that the governor will sign my bill because he has even said in interviews that he agrees election sites are sensitive locations," Jauregui pointed out. "This is a stand-alone, clean bill now that only impacts election sites. And I don't know anyone who doesn't believe that everyone should exercise their most fundamental right to vote without fear of intimidation."

Jauregui added she hopes her Republican colleagues can get on board. In 2023, both of her bills passed on party lines. She called the pieces of legislation common sense and believes the issue should be nonpartisan.

Jauregui noted in Nevada, one has to be 21 years old to purchase a handgun, therefore it therefore makes no sense when someone turns 18 they can buy a semiautomatic firearm. Assembly Bill 245 would seek to change it.

"We know that the day the Uvalde shooter turned 18, the day he turned 18, he walked into a firearms dealer and he bought two semiautomatic firearms that he then used to go into Robb Elementary School and create that horrible incident that so many families are struggling to get through now," Jauregui recounted.

Jauregui emphasized while Lombardo was not present the night of the shooting on October 1, 2017, she said she knows he was witness to the carnage that happened afterward as sheriff.

"I hope that when these bills make it to his desk, he remembers the devastation that guns cause to our community and that he finds it in himself to stand up to the gun lobby and to protect Nevadans," Jauregui concluded.


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