REACTION TO DECISION IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER CASE
Statement of Josh Horwitz, Executive Director, Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
Today, in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court departed from over 100 years of earlier judicial decisions and held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess firearms for self-defense purposes unconnected with service in a militia. Despite the sweeping tone of the holding, the majority opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia is relatively narrow in scope, and leaves more questions open than it answers.
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Date: 6/26/2008
STATEMENT OF NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION ORGANIZATIONS IN WAKE OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SHOOTING
Joint Release From Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Violence Policy Center
Washington, DC - Following yesterday’s mass shooting at Northern Illinois University which left six dead, including the shooter, and 16 wounded, America’s leading national gun violence prevention organizations, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and the Violence Policy Center, issued the following joint statement.
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Date: 2/15/2008
MICROSTAMPING LEGISLATION INTRODUCED IN U.S. HOUSE AND SENATE
Statement of Josh Horwitz, Executive Director, Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) would like to commend Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Representative Xavier Becerra (D-CA) for introducing comprehensive ballistics identification legislation in the U.S. Congress. Their respective bills, S. 2605 and H.R. 5266, would mandate manufacturer "microstamping" of all new semiautomatic handguns sold in the United States starting in 2010.
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Date: 2/8/2008
NEW VETERANS SECRETARY JAMES PEAKE WILL FACE TREMENDOUS CHALLENGE IMPLEMENTING NEW GUN BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM
Joint Release from Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Violence Policy Center
The Bush Administration’s new incoming Secretary of Veterans Affairs, James Peake, will almost immediately be faced with implementing a program to allow veterans currently prohibited from buying guns for mental health reasons to regain the ability to legally acquire firearms. The just-passed “NICS Improvement Act” requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a “relief from disability” program to allow persons now prohibited from possessing a firearm because they have “been adjudicated as a mental defective” or “committed to a mental institution” to apply to have their bar on firearms possession removed. The Secretary will have only 120 days to implement the new program. More than 116,000 veterans are currently eligible to apply.
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Date: 12/20/2007
GUN LOBBY HIJACKS BILL INTENDED TO IMPROVE GUN BUYER BACKGROUND CHECKS
Joint Release from Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Violence Policy Center, and Legal Community Against Violence
Leading national gun violence prevention organizations today warned that a bill intended to improve the records available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—the national system used to screen gun buyers—has been hijacked by the gun lobby and would now do far more harm than good.
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Date: 12/19/2007
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