IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 473 
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 
OCTOBER 8, 2015 
Ms. NORTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Vet-
erans’ Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
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 89 people die and approximately 300 
are injured from gun violence each day in the United 
States; 
Whereas more than 50 percent of all gunshot victims in the 
United States are under 30 years old; 
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•HRES 473 IH 
Whereas every 60 minutes one American under the age of 25 
loses his or her life to gun violence; 
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 fewer than 100 people in the United States have 
been killed in terror attacks since September 11, 2001, 
but tens of thousands have been killed by gun violence in 
that same time period; 
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 two-thirds of all homicides and half of all suicides 
are a result of gunshot wounds; 
Whereas 90 percent of homicides of law enforcement officers 
are a result of gunshot wounds; 
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 84 percent of homicides against male victims be-
tween the ages of 15 to 34 are committed with guns; 
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 ten-year ban on the sale of as-
sault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines; 
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•HRES 473 IH 
Whereas with the rise over time of sales in ‘‘no questions 
asked’’ transactions, 40 percent of guns sold in America 
are now done so without a Brady background check; 
Whereas the ban on the sale of assault weapons and large ca-
pacity ammunition magazines expired in 2004; 
Whereas in 2015, after years of decline, the number of homi-
cides due to gunshot wounds has spiked again in cities 
such as Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and New Orleans; 
Whereas this trend of increasing gun violence may spread; 
Whereas in the 16 States that require background checks of 
private gun sales, there are 38 percent fewer fatal shoot-
ings of women by their partners, 39 percent fewer police 
murdered by firearms, 17 percent fewer firearm aggra-
vated assaults, and 49 percent fewer suicides using fire-
arms; 
Whereas murder due to gunshot wounds climbed 25 percent 
in Missouri when universal background checks were lift-
ed; 
Whereas 33,636 deaths in the United States were due to 
guns in 2013; 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 enact the following leg-
islation from the 114th Congress to address gun vio-
lence: 
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(A) H.R. 3051, the Background Check 
Completion Act, to prevent firearms dealers 
from transferring firearms before a background 
check of the prospective buyer has been com-
pleted. 
(B) H.R. 752, the Large Capacity Ammu-
nition Feeding Device Act, to ban large capac-
ity ammunition magazines. 
(C) H.R. 3455, the Gun Trafficking Pre-
vention Act of 2015, to limit the trafficking of 
firearms. 
(D) H.R. 3130, the Zero Tolerance for Do-
mestic Abusers Act, to protect victims of stalk-
ing from gun violence. 
(E) H.R. 3411, the Fix Gun Checks Act of 
2015, and H.R. 1217, the Public Safety and 
Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 
2015, to require a background check for every 
gun transfer and to ensure that anyone who is 
prohibited from buying a gun is listed in the 
National Instant Criminal Background Check 
System. 
(F) Legislation to ban assault weapons. 
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