{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://polis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398497", "Polis defends against attempt to undercut state gun safety laws", "2017-12-06", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "CO", "Jared Polis", "P000598", "polis.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., rejected Republican attempts to move forward the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, legislation championed by the National Rifle Association (NRA).\u00a0 Under this bill, a person who is barred from buying a gun in one state can travel to another state with weaker gun laws, receive a permit, and carry that gun legally anywhere he wants, even in the state where he was originally refused a permit.\r\n\u201cColorado already has reciprocal concealed carry agreements with 33 other states that have high standards for background checks. After the Columbine shooting, Coloradans chose to enact sensible gun safety laws, voting to close the gun show loophole.\u00a0 The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act undercuts states\u2019 rights and gun safety laws that other states have adopted,\u201d\u00a0said Polis.\u00a0 \u201cCongress needs to take meaningful action, and at the bare minimum, we shouldn\u2019t undermine states that have been brave enough to address gun violence in the absence of federal leadership.\u201d\r\nPolis is a co-sponsor of bipartisan legislation that would ban the manufacture, sale, and use of bump stocks and other similar devices used to convert firearms into illegal automatic weapons.\u00a0 In addition, he has cosponsored the bipartisan Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act, which would require comprehensive background checks for firearm purchases.\u00a0 He opposed anti-gun violence prevention bills that would have prevented the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration from entering crucial mental health information into the federal background check database.\u00a0 He has also supported a resolution to establish a congressional committee on gun violence prevention.\u00a0\r\nPolis wrote an\u00a0opinion-editorial\u00a0in the Boulder Daily Camera outlining his support for three key priorities of the gun violence prevention movement: comprehensive background checks, ending the congressional ban on public health research into the root causes of gun violence, and prohibiting gun purchases to anyone on an FBI terrorism watch list.\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://polis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398497"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4693709090352058, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}