Lori Loureiro Trahan

Her campaign website says she supports bringing back the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and legislation under which the federal government would buy all semi-automatic weapons from current owners during a grace period, after which owning an assault rifle without a special permit for approved dealers and collectors would be a felony.⁹

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

Her campaign website says she supports comprehensive background checks at every point of sale, including closing the gun show loophole for sales at gun shows, on the web and by other unlicensed sellers.⁹

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

Her campaign website says she opposes concealed carry reciprocity legislation that would override state laws and require states like Massachusetts to allow concealed carry holders from across the country to carry there.⁹

1. Require every state to accept other states' permits
2. Let each state decide which permits to accept

A gun reform page that appears only in her campaign website's site map says she would oppose legislation to deregulate silencers by taking them out of the National Firearms Act, and that she will support a universal ban on bump stocks.¹⁰

1. Tighten rules, such as registering pistols with stabilizing braces and requiring serial numbers and background checks for all gun kits and parts
2. Keep current rules
3. Loosen rules, such as ending federal registration for suppressors and short-barreled rifles

Her campaign website says she will work to overturn Citizens United and supports the Democracy for All Amendment, which it says would let Congress and the states set overall limits on campaign spending, including prohibitions on corporate and union spending, and the DISCLOSE Act.¹¹

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

Her campaign website says she supports securing the southern and northern borders without a wall and does not support what it calls an ineffective, overpriced border wall.¹²

1. Build walls or fencing along much more of the border
2. Add barriers only in selected places, relying mainly on technology and agents
3. Build no new barriers and spend the money on other border security

Her campaign website says comprehensive immigration reform starts with a fair and equal pathway to citizenship and that she supports bipartisan reform for DACA recipients and Dreamers.¹²

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

Her campaign website's 2018 Immigration Policy page, which appears only in its site map, says she will fight to protect sanctuary cities, which it says the administration was attacking.¹³

Her campaign website's 2018 Immigration Policy page, which appears only in its site map, says she will never help deport productive immigrant members of American communities.¹³

A Policy Priorities page that appears only in her campaign website's site map says immigration quotas and admission criteria need updating because industries such as agriculture, manufacturing, health care and technology need qualified workers, and its 2018 Immigration Policy page says family migration poses little threat to the country and describes the family visa system as badly backlogged.^13,14

A Policy Priorities page that appears only in her campaign website's site map says the United States should do its share to shelter people fleeing crises, including by accepting refugees and asylum seekers.¹⁴

Her campaign website says healthcare is a right and that she will defend and expand the Affordable Care Act, and its 2018 Why I'm Running page, which appears only in the site map, says she will fight to make health care affordable, accessible and universal.^6,15

Her campaign website says Americans pay more than double what other countries pay for prescription drugs and that she is committed to rectifying this.⁶

Her campaign website lists increasing the minimum wage among her priorities for women's rights and opportunity.¹⁶

Her campaign website says she will defend access to reproductive health care and work to ensure every woman has access to it, and a Fighting for Women page that appears only in its site map says she will protect a woman's right to choose and lists protecting access to abortion and contraception among her policy priorities.^6,17

A Fighting for Women page that appears only in her campaign website's site map lists bans on abortion coverage by private and public insurance among the roadblocks to care that it says burden women, and says legal protections must be strengthened.¹⁷

Her campaign website lists fighting for Title X among her priorities and describes it as providing affordable family planning services, including contraception education and birth control.¹⁶

Her campaign website lists passing and promoting paid family leave that applies equally to all genders among her priorities for women's rights and opportunity.¹⁶

A Fighting for Women page that appears only in her campaign website's site map says federal child care aid has long fallen short and that she fully supports the Child Care for Working Families Act, which it says provides child care services to low-income families.¹⁷

A Policy Priorities page that appears only in her campaign website's site map says the government should be given the power to negotiate lower prices for drugs under Medicare Part D.¹⁴