Tuesday marks the seventh year since the deadly 1 October mass shooting, and Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui, a survivor of the event, plans on reintroducing two bills aimed at preventing gun violence that Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed during the 2023 legislature .
This time, however, Jauregui expects to win.
One bill would ban firearms at polling places, the same way they’re banned now at schools, airports, federal buildings, and courthouses. The other bill would raise the age for buying semi-automatic rifles from the age of 18 to 21, the current age to legally purchase a handgun.
Jauregui says both ideas are common-sense reforms that will keep people safe.
“And if we know that someone under the age of 21 is more likely to use a semi-automatic firearm to commit a mass shooting, then we need to do everything we can to keep that from happening,” Jauregui said.
Gov. Lombardo disagrees.
In 2023, he vetoed the age requirement , saying a Ninth Circuit Court ruling would have made it unconstitutional.