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Mayors Against Illegal Guns co-chair and New royalty City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg launched the FixGunChecks.org Truck Tour in New royalty City's Times Square this week. The FixGunChecks.org pushcart features a ambulatory billboard that module movement the country for digit months to entertainer public tending to the noxious problems in the nation's armament scenery analyse system. The pushcart features a measure that module sound the sort of Americans that hit been murdered with guns since the metropolis shooting.

Thirty-four grouping are murdered with guns every period in the United States. The pushcart journeying is conception of an online campaign, www.fixgunchecks.org that urges legislature to verify digit ultimate but grave steps to update the armament scenery analyse system:

ensure that the obloquy of every grouping illegal from purchase a armament are in the database;  and,

subject every armament sale to a scenery check. Since the crusade launched in January, more than 250,000 grouping hit subscribed an online asking and urged the President and legislature to mend the system.  

"Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns â€" and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally," said Mayor Bloomberg. "It is instance for Washington to center to the 250,000 Americans that hit subscribed our asking and verify action: since the metropolis actuation more than 1,300 grouping hit been killed with guns in the United States and that sort continues to grow."

"The Fix Gun Checks Tour module help as a reminder to lawmakers and the public that closing the holes in the scenery analyse grouping is an issue of life and death." said alinement co-chair and Beantown Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

Two Simple Ideas: Send the Records, Close the Gaps

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a nonpartisan coalition of more than 550 mayors, is urging legislature to verify digit steps to modify the scenery analyse system.

First: the grouping should contain every the records of those illegal by accumulation from purchase guns, including felons, mentally ill, husbandly abusers, and take abusers. legislature should set a goal of getting this employ ended within three years.

Millions of records involving illegal purchasers are absent from the database for the National Instant Background Check System (NICS). In Apr 2007, the Colony Tech shooter, who had a story of earnest noetic illness, was healthy to transfer a scenery analyse and acquire the firearms he used to blackball 32 grouping because records of his noetic illness had never been submitted to NICS. Jared Loughner, the metropolis shooter, was disqualified from expeditionary assist after he admitted that he was a habitual take user and should hit barred him from purchase firearms.  The Army never submitted aggregation about his take shout to the scenery analyse system.

In the wake of the Colony Tech tragedy, legislature passed the NICS Improvement Act, which was witting to incent states to accede records of illegal armament purchasers into the scenery analyse system, but legislature unsuccessful to provide sufficiency resource to support these efforts, and has not imposed thickened penalties for noncompliance. Almost quaternary years after Colony Tech, ten states hit not submitted some noetic upbeat records to NICS, and 18 states hit submitted fewer than 100 records.

Second: Congress should person every armament sale to a scenery analyse by closing the loopholes that now accept millions of firearms to be sold without them. Today, every federally licensed armament dealers are required to accede purchasers to fast scenery checks.  But "occasional sellers," who delude firearms at armament shows, through categorised ads, in parking lots or on the Internet, do not hit to carry checks under underway law. The Mayors Against Illegal Guns offering would person every armament income to a scenery check, with commonsensible exceptions for transfers of guns within families, through inheritance, or to grouping who already hit a valid armament accept that meets or exceeds the federal scenery analyse standards. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), 30 percent of guns participating in the agency's illegal armament trafficking investigations are connected to armament shows.

The Fix Gun Checks Tour

The FixGunChecks.org pushcart module movement across the United States to entertainer tending to the tragic sound of armament violence. The journeying module include events with mayors, accumulation enforcement officials, armament violence victims, and establishment body who module every become unitedly to ready guns discover of the safekeeping of chanceful people. Follow the journeying or analyse on the advancement of the Mobile Truck Team at www.fixgunchecks.org.

Also see:

America’s Mayors, Kennedy, and King Families disposition on President and legislature to Act (PDF, indicant ad)

(Source: Mayors Against Illegal Guns)

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