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Adam Laxalt on Gun Control |
Adam Laxalt (R): No. "Increasing restrictions on law-abiding citizens' access to firearms is not effective in reducing gun violence." Opposed expanded background checks, open to banning bump stocks. 100% NRA rating.
Steve Sisolak (D): Formerly opposed, now supports enforcing background checks, banning silencers, bump stocks, and assault weapons. NRA rating was 79% in 2012, now 7%.
Attorney General Laxalt cautioned against doing so and deemed the measure unenforceable unless or until the federal agency agreed to conduct the checks. Initiative proponents took the matter to court, where its remained ever since.
Fast forward to 2018, when Laxalt said he "wouldn't change anything" to put the initiative in place if elected to the state's highest office. "We're in litigation on this thing right now," Laxalt said of Question 1. "But the bottom line is (proponents) wrote a bad ballot initiative, specifically to avoid a fiscal note. They didn't tell the people what this thing would've cost if they ran it through the state. Until the FBI agrees to do that, that's it."
That would seem to be odds with statements he's made on the campaign trail, including tweets that have decried bump stock-modified firearms as "killing machines" in need of an immediate ban. A spokeswoman said that Sisolak filled out the survey before many of the nation's worst mass shootings took place, including Columbine & Sandy Hook.
Sisolak in 2013 told the Las Vegas Sun that he supported an assault weapons ban. In 2016, he urged taking action beyond "thoughts and prayers" while attending a vigil for the victims of a shooting that left 49 people dead and 58 wounded at a gay nightclub in Orlando.