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Whereas 5 percent of gun dealers (approximately 3,000 deal-
ers 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 sol-
diers 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 enact-
ment 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 as-
sault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines; 
Whereas the ban on the sale of assault weapons and large ca-
pacity 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 
their partners, 39 percent fewer police murdered by fire-
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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, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the designation of National Gun 
Violence Awareness Month; and 
(2) calls on Congress to pass gun violence pre-
vention legislation, including the following: 
(A) H.R. 5087, the Assault Weapons Ban 
of 2018, to ban assault weapons. 
(B) H.R. 4240, the Public Safety and Sec-
ond Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2018, 
and H.R. 1612, the Gun Show Loophole Clos-
ing Act of 2017, to require universal back-
ground checks. 
(C) H.R. 4052, the Keep Americans Safe 
Act, to prohibit large capacity ammunition 
magazines. 
(D) H.R. 3464, the Background Check 
Completion Act, to prevent firearms dealers 
from transferring firearms before a background 
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check of the prospective buyer has been com-
pleted. 
(E) H.R. 2598, the Gun Violence Restrain-
ing Order Act of 2017, to allow ‘‘red flag’’ re-
straining orders for those who pose a risk of in-
jury to themselves or others. 
(F) H.R. 3999, to ban bump stocks. 
(G) H.R. 1475, the Gun Trafficking Pre-
vention Act of 2017, to limit the trafficking of 
firearms. 
(H) H.R. 3207, the Zero Tolerance for 
Domestic Abusers Act, to protect victims of 
stalking from gun violence. 
(I) H.R. 5383, the Ammunition Back-
ground Check Act of 2018, to require back-
ground checks for all purchases of ammunition. 
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