A survivor of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, she is a prominent advocate for gun control within the Nevada Assembly.
Jauregui was born in 1983 in Monterey Park, California, and raised in nearby Hacienda Heights.
[4] Jauregui ran for the open seat vacated by the retiring Victoria A. Dooling in 2016.
She defeated former Assemblyman Paul Aizley in the Democratic primary and Republican Nick Phillips in the general election.
In 2019, Jauregui became the primary sponsor of AB291, a red flag law that allows temporary seizure of guns by court order if a person is deemed a danger to themselves or others.