The Supreme Court and Guns: A Massachusetts Perspective on Gun Violence

Join the Frederick E. Berry Institute of Politics and the Politics, Policy, and International Relations department for our annual Constitution Day event. This event will discuss the national landscape of gun violence including the Supreme Court’s recent decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which has overturned more than a dozen gun laws, and the upcoming case United States v. Rahimi, which could establish a gun ban for people subject to domestic abuse restraining orders. The discussion will then turn to how this is playing out in Massachusetts such as with the recently introduced gun safety legislation (HD 4420) sponsored by Representative Michael Day.

Speakers Include:

• Michael Day, Massachusetts State Representative (31st Middlesex) and Chairperson of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary

• Rina Schneur, Legislation Lead and Co-Deputy Chapter Lead for Moms Demand Action Massachusetts

Michael Day, Massachusetts State Representative (31st Middlesex) and Chairperson of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Representative Day proudly represents the towns of Stoneham and Winchester. He and his wife Megan live and are active in Stoneham, where they are raising their three sons, Conor, Ryan and Finnegan. Michael founded his own law firm in 2012 after working as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County and practicing law at Mintz Levin in Boston for nearly ten years. He is one of the leading advocates of civil rights and civil liberties issues in the Boston Bar Association, and until recently served on the Board of Directors of a non-profit organization dedicated to ending child abuse. He coaches Mite players in Stoneham Youth Hockey.

As Chairperson of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, Representative Day leads the committee in considering all matters concerning crimes, penalties and sentencing, criminal offender record information, judiciary, including the recall of judges, the salaries of judges, court clerks and court officers of the various courts, probation officers, juries and jury duty, parole, registers of deeds, correction issues previously sent to Public Safety (but excluding the retirement of judges and all other court personnel) and such other matters as may be referred. 

Rina Schneur, Legislation Lead and Co-Deputy Chapter Lead for Moms Demand Action Massachusetts

Rina Schneur is currently the legislation lead and co-deputy chapter lead of the Massachusetts Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence. Rina has been a volunteer with Moms Demand action since 2017. In 2021 and 2022 Rina served as the co-lead of the MA chapter. Before that she was the legislative lead and the lead of the Middlesex local group. In her professional career, Rina is a Data Scientist specializing in advanced analytics and network optimization and has held various position in the industry running business analytics groups.

This event will be in-person in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Room on the second floor of the Ellison Campus Center. Registration is not required, please just show up and join us!