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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 993 

Expressing support for the designation of June 2020 as ‘‘National Gun 

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

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 4, 2020 

Ms. NORTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing support for the designation of June 2020 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 3 times more 

likely than knives and 10 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 almost 40,000 deaths in the United States were due 

to guns in 2017; 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 the Senate to pass gun violence pre5 vention legislation, including— 

6 (A) H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background 

7 Checks Act of 2019, to require a background 

8 check on every gun sale or transfer, which 

9 passed the House of Representatives on Feb10 ruary 27, 2020; and 

11 (B) H.R. 1112, the Enhanced Background 

12 Checks Act of 2019, to close the ‘‘Charleston 

13 Loophole’’ by providing the Federal background 

14 check system additional time to make a final 

15 determination on a potential gun purchaser be16 fore a licensed dealer can transfer a gun, which 

17 passed the House of Representatives on Feb18 ruary 28, 2020. 

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