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Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention.
Introduced: October 8, 2015
Introduced by:
Thompson, Mike
Democratic
· California
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Oct 8, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Oct 8, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Establishes the House Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to investigate and report on:
- the causes of mass shootings,
- methods to improve the federal firearms purchaser background check system,
- connections between access to firearms and dangerously mentally ill individuals,
- strengthening federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchasing of firearms,
- closing loopholes that allow some domestic abusers continued access to firearms,
- linkages between firearms and suicide,
- gun violence's effect on public health,
- the correlation between state gun violence prevention laws and the incidence of gun violence,
- the importance of having reliable and accurate information on gun violence and its toll on our nation,
- the implementation of effective gun violence prevention laws in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and
- rates of gun violence in large metropolitan areas.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
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