Rep. Epps advocates for common-sense gun violence prevention legislation, supports responsible gun ownership, and always prioritizes saving lives over saving legislative seats. She centers survivors, victim families, and directly impacted people in considering gun policy proposals. Like all issues of public safety, interrupting gun violence requires addressing root causes and applying racial and disability justice lenses.

Rep. Epps understands that our work on gun control must address gun violence in all its forms including suicide, intimate partner violence, intra+inter-community harm, militarized state violence, and more.

Specifically, Rep. Epps supports effective gun policy interventions like prohibiting assault weapons and high capacity magazines, extreme risk protection orders (red flag laws), increasing purchase age for firearms, expanding background checks, safe storage laws, and waiting periods. All of these policies can—and must—be enacted in data-driven ways that do not exacerbate over-criminalization of the very people and communities most harmed by gun violence.

Colorado can’t afford to wait for the federal government to reenact a federal ban on assault weapons. Rep. Epps has shown that she won’t be intimidated by the gun lobby, and she also won’t be intimated by conservative Democrats who block progressive legislation to keep Colorado safe.

Rep. Epps is proud to be certified by Moms Demand Action as a Certified Gun Sense Candidate in both 2022 and 2024.