Panto Appears in Gun Violence PSA

Easton Mayor Sal Panto is one of several heads of U.S. cities featured in a new public service ad calling on Congress to help end gun violence

The ad—featured in a CNN story Wednesday morning—was created by Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

It shows a group of mayors—including Panto, Ed Pawlowski of Allentown and Michael Nutter of Philadelphia—asking legislators to require background checks for all gun sales, take military-style assault weapons and high capacity magazines off the streets and to make gun trafficking a federal crime.

(Panto appears twice in the 86-second clip: first at 17 seconds in and again at the 34-second mark.)

"I support the rights of the Second Amendment," he says at one point.

Last year, the mayor—along with several of his local counterparts—signed a petition asking for many of the same things argued for in the PSA.