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Josh Shapiro: “We led a national effort to close the ghost gun loophole.”

Featuring: Josh Shapiro, Democratic | Governor of Pennsylvania

Gov Shapiro Highlights Impact of His Administration's Violence Intervention and Prevention Program

Published August 2, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:15

I previously served as the attorney general. As many of you know, there, my team fought successfully to address violence in our community. We led a national effort to close the ghost gun loophole. We arrested 330 gun traffickers. We took 3200 crime guns off our streets across Pennsylvania, including more than half of them right here in the city of Philadelphia. (09:15–09:21)

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Asserts involvement in a national initiative to address ghost guns.

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