Intelligence sharing, that's going to be a game-changer for us. Being able to be aggressive, looking at those sales, following up to make sure that those guns are still in the hands of the person that bought them, that's going to be key. So I welcome those. And again, to me that's low-hanging fruit that should have been happening all along. But it didn't happen in the previous administration. It's going to happen now.
Lori Lightfoot praises the new federal plan's focus on gun purchases and criticizes the previous administration's lack of action.
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