Mayor De
Luca Heads to Washington D.C. to Demand that
Members of
Congress Pass Common-Sense Gun Laws
January
16th Mayors Advocacy Day Led by National, Bipartisan Mayors Against
Illegal Guns Coalition
Maplewood – Mayor Victor De Luca announced today that he
will join 60 other mayors from across the country as they descend on Washington,
DC, and advocate for common-sense gun laws. Mayor De Luca is a member of Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, a national bipartisan coalition of more than 800 mayors
with nearly a million grassroots supporters.
“We will bring a message from the grassroots, from the
moms and dads and sisters and brothers across America, that federal action is
needed now to stem the tide of gun violence,” said De Luca. “New Jersey’s
Congressional delegation needs to be on board with this effort.”
In the wake of the horrific Newtown elementary school
shooting, Mayors Against Illegal Gun sent a letter to the White House and all
members of the U.S. Congress with three concrete proposals to prevent gun
violence in the United States. These include:
·
Requiring background checks for all U.S. gun
sales, including the millions of “private” sales conducted over the internet,
at guns shows and in other locales.
·
Enacting common-sense restrictions on the
purchase and transfer of military style weapons and high capacity magazines.
·
Making gun trafficking a federal crime and establishing
enhanced penalties for kingpin gun traffickers.
One key bill, the Fix Gun Checks Act (H.R. 137) has
already been re-introduced in Congress, and several more are scheduled for introduction
in the coming weeks.
Mayor De Luca will ask his representatives in Congress to
become original sponsors of H.R. 137 (or the Senate companion), which requires
background checks for all sales and also improves the reporting of relevant
mental health records into the nation’s gun background check database.
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