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President Bush signs HR2640 expanding Brady Registration Act
January 17, 2008
Source: National Association for Gun Rights
WASHINGTON — A rare piece of gun legislation finds the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence on the same side, and President Bush signed such a bill Tuesday. Source: National Association for Gun Rights
The measure, Congress' response to last year's Virginia Tech shootings, is the first significant federal legislation in years aimed at tightening gun laws. It seeks to expand the federal database used to screen gun buyers to include the estimated 2 million-plus people, including felons and mentally ill individuals, who are ineligible to buy firearms.
"It's the first gun-control legislation of any sort that Congress has passed in over 12 years," said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign. But the measure has created an unusual rift among gun-control groups...
(Read the rest of this L.A Times Article here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guns9dec09,0,5923876.story?coll=la-home-center)
For more information about H.R. 2640, read NAGR's analysis here: http://www.nationalgunrights.org/hr2640.shtml
