The weekend before Josh Shapiro's inauguration as Pennsylvania governor, he called out the “absolutely unacceptable” level of gun violence plaguing the Keystone State but offered scant details on his plans to curtail the bloodshed.
A day before his inauguration, Pennsylvania governor-elect Josh Shapiro spoke about the "absolutely unacceptable" level of gun violence plaguing the Keystone State. Shapiro, who defeated Doug Mastriano in last November's gubernatorial election, was non-committal about a specific plan to tackle gun violence but in the past he called attention to closing loopholes in the state's gun laws.
Gun reform activists hope Shapiro - the former state Attorney General with credibility as a prosecutor and in law enforcement - will make control the flow of illegal firearms often responsible for gun deaths across the state. They say a Pennsylvanian is shot every two hours, while another grim homicide total in Philadelphia top 500 last year.
In his previous role, Shapiro prosecuted straw purchases and brought attention to restricting ghost guns, which are often made from kits at home and without serial numbers for tracing. Ghost guns have repeatedly showed up at crime scenes, becoming a focal point for gun reform activists.
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