Mark Glaze, the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, welcomed the pro-gun moderates’ involvement, saying it helps make the case for the background-check bill, and could make the legislation more likely to pass in Congress. “Our views have always been where the public is,” he said. “The majority believe you have a right to have a gun in your home for self-defense, an...
Read MoreA new ad released by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group uses the mother of a victim in the Aurora, Col. theater shooting to attack Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. Entitled “My Son,” the ad, sponsored by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, features comments from Arizona resident Caren Teves, mother Alex Teves, who was killed in the July 20 incident.
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Two men who lost relatives in last year's shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school urged New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Thursday to change her position on a gun control measure that would expand background checks. Neil Heslin and Gilles Rousseau spoke at a news conference held by advocacy group Granite State Progress that has criticized Ayotte for voting against a key part of Presid...
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"...Ayotte (and nearly every Republican senator) voted to block the Manchin-Toomey legislation to expand background checks. Instead she voted for a substitute Republican measure to include more mental health reporting in the FBI criminal background check system and permit recovered mentally ill people to buy a gun. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a gun control advocacy group founded by New York C...
Read MoreMayors Against Illegal Guns Chairman John Feinblatt discusses the post-Newtown push for gun reform at the state level.
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Pressure to revisit the vote began to build when senators returned home for a week-long recess in late April. Gun control groups, such as Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Americans for Responsible Solutions, dogged a few senators who had opposed the measure and disseminated polls showing steep drops in their approval ratings.
Read MoreThe gun-reform group co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg on Monday released a touching animated short that repeats the group’s demands for Congress to enact gun-control legislation. The group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, recruited dozens of the nation’s best cartoonists for the short film, which encourages citizens and lawmakers to take action to end gun violence in the U.S.
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Four Democratic senators who defied President Barack Obama to help defeat gun-safety legislation are facing the wrath of activists who promise to make them pay a political price.
Read MoreMayors Against Illegal Guns is launching a round of television ads to pressure seven Republican senators and two Democrats to vote for a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. The new ad invokes the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and subtly chides the Senate for taking up gun control legislation more than 100 days after the tragedy.
Read MoreNow that senators have returned from their recess, they must act swiftly to pass Senator Reid’s omnibus gun violence prevention bill (S.649), which requires that all gun buyers pass background checks — whether they purchase their firearms from licensed dealers or else in so-called “private” sales, such as online and at gun shows. And the bill must take the same record-ke...
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