Our communities will be safer when we improve background checks, ban assault weapons, and prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms.
Jared Moskowitz will improve background checks, ban assault weapons, and prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms.
Occurrences
“I look forward to continuing these fights in Congress.”
Evidence
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Since his arrival to Congress, Moskowitz has supported federal initiatives that would expand background checks, enforce red flag laws nation-wide, and ban assault weapons.
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Firearms: ban assault weapons, bump stocks, high-capacity ammunition magazines, and devices designed to evade assault weapons ban, and ensure right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited (see H.R. 698) ... require background check for every firearm sale (see H.R. 715).
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Today, Congressman Jared Moskowitz (D-Florida) announced he has introduced legislation raising the Federal age to buy a semiautomatic firearm from 18 to 25.
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Sponsor: Rep. McBath, Lucy ... Latest Action: House - 04/30/2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Tracker: Tip This bill has the status Introduced.
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Congress.gov lists H.R.18 as introduced June 10, 2025, referred to the House Judiciary Committee, and still at the Introduced stage. The bill title is to require a background check for every firearm sale, and Congress.gov lists Rep. Jared Moskowitz as a cosponsor.
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Congress.gov lists H.R.3115, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025, as introduced April 30, 2025, referred to the House Judiciary Committee, and still at the Introduced stage. The introduced text names Moskowitz among the lawmakers for whom the bill was introduced.
Assessments
Moskowitz materially supported the promised federal gun-safety agenda by cosponsoring or backing bills to require universal background checks, ban assault weapons, and restrict access by higher-risk purchasers, including H.R.18 and H.R.3115 in the 119th Congress and related legislation in the 118th Congress. However, the core promised outcomes have not been enacted as federal law: the background-check and assault-weapons-ban bills remained introduced/referred rather than passed, and the broader firearm-access restrictions were legislative efforts rather than delivered policy. Because he made serious federal legislative attempts but did not deliver the promised outcome, this is a non-delivery with effort credit.
The promise bundled three federal outcomes: improved background checks, an assault-weapons ban, and preventing dangerous people from accessing firearms. The evidence shows Moskowitz supported and advanced related federal legislation, including proposals on assault weapons, background checks, red flag laws, and raising the semiautomatic purchase age. However, the cited bills were introduced or supported, not enacted, and there is no evidence that the promised federal policy outcomes became law during his term. Because he made serious legislative efforts but did not deliver the promised outcomes, this is best scored as not fulfilled with an effort badge.
The promised outcomes were not delivered federally: assault-weapons-ban and background-check measures remained proposals rather than enacted law, and the evidence does not show that dangerous people were successfully prevented from accessing firearms through a completed policy change attributable to Moskowitz. However, Moskowitz made serious legislative efforts during the same term, including supporting background-check and assault-weapons-ban measures and introducing a bill to raise the semiautomatic firearm purchase age to 25, so the effort badge applies despite non-delivery.