Baltimore’s city council president went south to D.C. today to lobby for stricter gun control measures, citing his own jurisdiction’s issues with the stemming gun violence.

Jack Young is meeting with Sen. Ben Cardin, Maryland’s senior Senate member, and leading members of Congress today to talk comprehensive gun reform, including everything from bump stocks to illegal guns.

“Firearms recovered in 2016 in Maryland crossed our borders from all 50 states and Washington D.C.,” Young’s office said in a release, citing a report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. His office tied the flow of illegal guns directly to Baltimore’s “historic increase in violent crime.”

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