The past two months have been good ones, according to Tom Killion. Killion is the former state representative who became a state senator in a special election in April.

“I’m enjoying it thoroughly. The Senate is much smaller; it’s a quarter of the size. You can get a lot more done,” Killion said in a brief interview Saturday during an open house meet-and-greet in his Concord Township office. Several dozen constituents showed up throughout the morning.

Killion said he’s already moved several bills out of committee, one of which, he said was one of his bills when he was in the House.

“I got to vote on it twice,” he said.

That bill involves the testing of perfusionists — operators of heart-lung machines during cardiac surgery. Killion said under state law, the operators must be tested and, if they fail, they can’t work. Killion said his bill allows them to be tested a second time before they’re removed.

Killion, a Republican, defeated Democrat Marty Molloy on April 26 for the 9^th Senatorial District seat previously held by Dominic F. Pileggi, who became a Delaware County Common Pleas Court judge in the November 2015 election.

He will face Molloy again in November, when the four-year term Pileggi won in 2012 expires.

Killion said his issues in the race would be the same as the ones in April. One is public safety, with a focus on heroin use in the state. He said he wants to see an emphasis on treatment for drug addiction, including a prescription drug-monitoring program.

He said student athletes become easily addicted to OxyContin when it’s prescribed for sports injuries.

“The doctors are telling us you can become addicted to OxyContin in 10 days, but some of these kids with football injuries are walking out with a 30-day supply,” Killion said.

Another issue, he said, would be gun control, though he doesn’t know how major an issue it will be when the campaigns heat up.

In a debate with Molloy before the April special election, Killion said that he’s glad he doesn’t get a grade higher than a D from the NRA, but he said Saturday he still backs the Second Amendment.

“The difference between me and my opponent is, though we’re on similar pages, is that I’m pro-Second Amendment. I think a person should be able to own a gun. Beyond that, there should be some reasonable, reasonable, controls,” he said. “My opponent is for taking away guns.”

Among those controls, he said, are a limit of only being able to buy one gun per month and requirements to report a stolen or lost handgun. Killion said he also wants to look at magazine capacity and the accessibility of “assault rifles.”