Washington, DC – With just under two weeks left until Election Day, the Pennsylvania AG race remains extremely close. And PA Democratic candidate, Eugene DePasquale, is making his plans to combat gun violence known to all Pennsylvanians.

According to an article by Spotlight PA, DePasquale has consistently favored gun regulation efforts, including gun safety and suicide prevention programs – earning him the endorsement of the national gun violence prevention group Giffords PAC. While far-right GOP nominee Dave Sunday opposes the very tools, like red flag laws, that make communities safer.  

“He [DePasquale] said that as attorney general, he would focus on ‘going after these illegal gun dealers, and some of those are going to be across state lines, which means you have to build partnerships with other state attorneys general to take these people on, working with the Justice Department.’”

Spotlight PA continues, “Carver Murphy, DePasquale’s campaign director, said in a statement that the candidate would additionally ‘prosecute illegal gun dealers and ghost gun dealers to the fullest extent of the law — making an example of those criminals to show that we are very serious about gun violence here.’

“‘He supports the legislature requiring universal background checks for gun purchases and passing a ‘red flag’ law that would allow guns to be seized from people deemed to be a risk to themselves or others.’”

On the other hand, his far-right opponent, Dave Sunday, is endorsed by a self-proclaimed “no compromise” radical gun rights group, Gun Owners of America. 

As Spotlight PA reports, “The group’s Pennsylvania state director, Val Finnell, wrote that Sunday had returned a survey and that Finnell could ‘say with confidence that [Sunday] is AGAINST Universal Registration Checks and Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders…’ Sunday declined to tell Spotlight PA whether he supports the extreme risk protection order bill the state House passed…”

It’s clear Sunday won’t do what’s right to curb gun violence and protect Pennsylvanians. The people of Pennsylvania deserve better – they deserve Eugene DePasquale as their next Attorney General.

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