Following President Obama’s announcement today on proposals to reduce gun violence, Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-22) released the following statement.

“Today President Obama unveiled common-sense proposals and took action to reduce gun violence and make our communities and our country safer without infringing on the 2^nd Amendment,” Congresswoman Lois Frankel said. “People in South Florida and across America have the right to be free from violence when they send their kids to school or go to the movies and that’s why it is so important we act now.”

Frankel applauded President Obama for his proposals that call for requiring background checks for all gun sales, reinstating and strengthening the assault weapons ban, restoring the ban on high-capacity magazines and increasing access to mental health services.

Frankel has been appointed to serve on the congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and is co-sponsoring two bills to reduce gun violence. She is co-sponsor of the Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act, which would restore the federal ban on high capacity magazines and the Gunshow Loophole Closing Act of 2013, which would require criminal background checks for all firearms purchased at gun shows.

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