Center for American Progress 28 Points

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Strengthening background checks

1. Issue guidance to licensed gun dealers to encourage them to conduct voluntary background checks on behalf of private sellers
2. Require background checks for private sales at gun shows that are held on publicly owned property
3. Create an interagency working group to evaluate the state’s progress in providing prohibiting records to the background check system
4. Apply for federal grant funding to improve background check records
5. Ensure that all domestic violence and drug abuse prohibiting records are pre-validated and flagged in the background check system

Enhanced enforcement of current laws

6. Investigate and prosecute cases in which prohibited individuals attempt to purchase guns from licensed dealers and fail a background check
7. Create a dedicated gun crime investigative unit in state and local police departments to focus on illegal gun trafficking and gun crime
8. Create an illegal gun tip line
9. Increase the use of technology to solve gun crimes and prevent shootings
10. Implement de-escalation training for police officers and increase the use of independent prosecutors in investigations of police officers who use lethal force
11. Implement a lethality assessment program for officers who are responding to domestic violence calls
12. Implement statewide standardized protocol requiring prohibited domestic abusers to surrender all firearms in their possession
13. Provide guidance to local judges to ensure that they order the surrender of firearms by domestic abusers in appropriate cases

Improved data collection and analysis

14. Require state and local law enforcement agencies to trace all crime guns
15. Conduct an annual review of trace data to identify the largest sources of crimeguns in the state
16. Create an opt-in program for law enforcement agencies across the state toshare trace data
17. Create a review commission to study every gun-related death in the state
18. Improve statewide collection of crime and gun death data

Enhanced community engagement

19. Implement a violence-intervention program in local hospital emergency rooms for gunshot victims
20. Implement community-based programs to prevent violent crime in vulnerable communities

Enhanced oversight of gun carrying

21. Conduct an annual review of concealed-carry permit reciprocity agreements with other states and rescind those agreements with states that fail to meet certain standards
22. Conduct monthly background checks to ensure continued eligibility for individuals who have been issued concealed-carry permits
23. Use existing criminal laws to discourage reckless acts of open carry

Enhanced regulation of the gun industry

24. Increase security measures and improve other business practices of gun dealers
25. Create a grading system for gun dealers that incentivizes adoption of best practices
26. Use state and local buying power to encourage best practices by gun manufacturers and dealers
27. Divest public funds from gun manufacturers that fail to adopt best practices
28. Enforce state sales tax laws on high-volume sellers of guns who have notobtained a federal firearms license