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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 920 

Expressing support for the designation of June as National Gun Violence 

Awareness Month, and calling on Congress to address gun violence. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 5, 2018 

Ms. NORTON (for herself and Mr. HASTINGS) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing support for the designation of June as National 

Gun Violence Awareness Month, and calling on Congress 

to address gun violence. 

Whereas summer is the season with the highest rates of gun 

violence in the United States; 

Whereas 100,000 Americans suffer gunshot wounds in the 

United States every year; 

Whereas approximately 96 people die and approximately 200 

are injured from gun violence each day in the United 

States; 

Whereas more than 60 percent of all gunshot victims in the 

United States are under 30 years old; 

Whereas every 70 minutes one American under the age of 25 

loses his or her life to gun violence; 


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Whereas 5 percent of gun dealers (approximately 3,000 dealers nationwide) supply nearly 90 percent of all crime 

guns that show up in American streets; 

Whereas more children have been killed by guns in the 

United States since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary 

School shooting than the total number of American soldiers killed in overseas combat since September 11, 2001; 

Whereas more Americans have died from gunshot wounds in 

the past three decades than the sum total of combat 

deaths in all the wars in United States history; 

Whereas half of all suicides are a result of gunshot wounds; 

Whereas 90 percent of homicides of law enforcement officers 

are the result of firearms; 

Whereas firearms used during a robbery are three times more 

likely than knives and ten times more likely than other 

weapons to result in the death of a victim; 

Whereas 20 percent of female homicide victims are killed by 

a current or former partner using firearms; 

Whereas gun violence declined in the 1990s after the enactment of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 

1993, which created a national background check system, 

and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 

of 1994, which placed a 10-year ban on the sale of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines; 

Whereas the ban on the sale of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines expired in 2004; 

Whereas according to a 2014 study, of the 16 States that 

then required background checks of private gun sales, 

there were 38 percent fewer fatal shootings of women by 

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arms, 17 percent fewer firearm-aggravated assaults, and 

49 percent fewer suicides using firearms; 

Whereas more than 38,000 deaths in the United States were 

due to guns in 2016; and 

Whereas June would be an appropriate month to designate 

as National Gun Violence Awareness Month: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) supports the designation of National Gun 

3 Violence Awareness Month; and 

4 (2) calls on Congress to pass gun violence pre5 vention legislation, including the following: 

6 (A) H.R. 5087, the Assault Weapons Ban 

7 of 2018, to ban assault weapons. 

8 (B) H.R. 4240, the Public Safety and Sec9 ond Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2018, 

10 and H.R. 1612, the Gun Show Loophole Clos11 ing Act of 2017, to require universal back12 ground checks. 

13 (C) H.R. 4052, the Keep Americans Safe 

14 Act, to prohibit large capacity ammunition 

15 magazines. 

16 (D) H.R. 3464, the Background Check 

17 Completion Act, to prevent firearms dealers 

18 from transferring firearms before a background 


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1 check of the prospective buyer has been com2 pleted. 

3 (E) H.R. 2598, the Gun Violence Restrain4 ing Order Act of 2017, to allow ‘‘red flag’’ re5 straining orders for those who pose a risk of in6 jury to themselves or others. 

7 (F) H.R. 3999, to ban bump stocks. 

8 (G) H.R. 1475, the Gun Trafficking Pre9 vention Act of 2017, to limit the trafficking of 

10 firearms. 

11 (H) H.R. 3207, the Zero Tolerance for 

12 Domestic Abusers Act, to protect victims of 

13 stalking from gun violence. 

14 (I) H.R. 5383, the Ammunition Back15 ground Check Act of 2018, to require back16 ground checks for all purchases of ammunition. 

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