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Article: Brady Campaign Urges Support for Bill to Close Gun Show Loophole
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 30, 2008
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several families
of the Virginia Tech massacre and Brady Campaign President Paul
Helmke joined Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jack Reed on Capitol
Hill today as the Senators announced the introduction of legislation
that would strengthen the Brady background check system by closing
the gun show loophole.
We make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous
weapons. Closing the gun show loophole is a sensible step to take to
strengthen the Brady criminal background check system, said Paul
Helmke, President of the ...