Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Endorses State Rep. Jason Knight for Rhode Island Attorney General

NEW YORK - Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund announced its endorsement of State Representative Jason Knight in the Democratic primary for Rhode Island attorney general. Knight, a Navy veteran and longtime champion for gun safety, has served in the Rhode Island House since 2016 and sponsored the 2025 law prohibiting the sale of assault weapons in the state.

"Jason Knight has a long track record of fighting like hell for common sense gun laws, which makes him an ideal candidate for state attorney general, who must hold the line against Trump administration attempts to weaken federal gun laws," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. "As the driving force behind Rhode Island's ban on assault weapons and straw purchasing, Everytown is proud to endorse Jason Knight for attorney general."

"More than a decade ago, Rhode Island volunteers started filling hearing rooms at the statehouse with nothing but their neighbors' phone numbers and a refusal to quit, and every gun safety law on the books in this state has their fingerprints on it," said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. "Jason Knight has been a partner in that lifesaving work - on gun trafficking, on secure storage, on high-capacity magazines - and now our volunteers will have his back in this campaign."

Representative Jason Knight has been a leader on gun safety in the Rhode Island General Assembly, sponsoring and cosponsoring a long list of measures to protect Rhode Islanders from gun violence. He sponsored the 2025 law prohibiting the sale of assault weapons - the culmination of a 12-year campaign by gun safety advocates - and the 2021 law banning straw purchases. He also cosponsored Rhode Island's prohibition on high-capacity magazines, its secure storage requirement, its ban on bump stocks and other devices that make semi-automatic weapons fire like fully automatic ones, and a law ensuring gun purchase applications are reviewed by police in the buyer's own community. As attorney general, he would be responsible for defending those laws in court and for holding the gun industry accountable to Rhode Islanders.