IV 
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 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 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 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 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the designation of ‘‘National Gun 
Violence Awareness Month’’; and 
(2) calls on the Senate to pass gun violence pre-
vention legislation, including— 
(A) H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background 
Checks Act of 2019, to require a background 
check on every gun sale or transfer, which 
passed the House of Representatives on Feb-
ruary 27, 2020; and 
(B) H.R. 1112, the Enhanced Background 
Checks Act of 2019, to close the ‘‘Charleston 
Loophole’’ by providing the Federal background 
check system additional time to make a final 
determination on a potential gun purchaser be-
fore a licensed dealer can transfer a gun, which 
passed the House of Representatives on Feb-
ruary 28, 2020. 
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