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A Democrat lawmaker who was carjacked revealed that when she looked down the barrel she could only think about Congress' failures to address gun reform and how closing 'loopholes' and funding the ATF could have prevented her robbing.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Penn., represents south Philadelphia where the House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing Friday on crime in the city.
'Two and a half years ago, I was carjacked at gunpoint by three teenagers using a gun they brought from out of state,' Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Penn., said at the hearing.
'Obviously, it was scary to have a gun pointed at my chest,' Scanlon said.
'But as I looked down the barrel of that gun my mind raced thinking about all the ways Congress could have prevented that encounter.'
Scanlon was robbed of her car at gunpoint in FDR Park (pictured) following a meeting there. She was walking to her parked vehicle when she two men driving a dark-colored SUV approached her, demanded her keys and fled in her 2017 Acura MDX
Scanlon's car was located later on Wednesday night at the Christiana Mall, in Delaware. Police arrested five suspects inside the car
Scanlon was the victim of a high-profile 2021 carjacking by two teenagers that forced her to hand over her purse and keys, stranding her and a staffer.
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