In his nationwide effort for tighter gun control, Mayor Michael Bloomberg attributes historic crime lows in New York to strict gun laws that are strictly enforced. “If we are serious about protecting lives,” he wrote in a recent newspaper editorial, “we have to get serious about enforcing our laws.”
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Two years after Mayors Against Illegal Guns ranked Pennsylvania one of the most uncooperative states when it comes to sharing mental health records with the national database against which gun sale background checks are conducted, state police last week opened the floodgates. Pennsylvania State Police sent more than 643,000 records from the state background check database regarding residents w...
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Through 2011, Pennsylvania was the most populous of 23 states that had submitted fewer than 100 disqualifying mental health records to NICS, and it was among the 17 states to submit fewer than 10 such records, according to the report, "Fatal Gaps," by Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
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[As] mayors from around the nation gathered here on Thursday for the 81st winter meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors, many said they were heartened by President Obama’s call for new laws to curb gun violence, which included several measures that the conference had sought for decades. Many said they planned to urge Congress to enact them.
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Mayors from cities across the U.S. are meeting in Washington this week, and gun violence is on their agenda. Since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, a group of mayors has become one of the loudest voices in favor of new gun laws. More than 800 mayors belong to Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The coalition's stated goal is "protecting the rights of Americans to own guns,...
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Persuading Congress to ban assault weapons will be tough, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday. But it's a fight the outspoken advocate of stricter gun laws says he's determined to win. "Getting rid of assault weapons, that is a tougher sell, and that's what we've really got to work on," Bloomberg said in an interview with CNN's AC360°. "I'm optimistic, but it's tougher."
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a member of the national Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign, met with a group of students from around the region who support tougher gun control laws. "We know, because we've been through this before, through the passage of time, resolution to change withers," Villaraigosa said at a City Hall press conference. "This time, we cannot allow that to happen."
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Two major groups of mayors — the long-established U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Michael Bloomberg-backed Mayors Against Illegal Guns, founded in 2006 — are set to play a major role in the coming debate over gun control, where they can win media attention and make the case for gun control even in strictly conservative states such as Utah and South Carolina.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a prominent gun control advocate, scheduled a press conference this afternoon to praise the White House for what he described as “a bold and comprehensive plan to tackle gun violence” that matches much of his own vision. “Today it’s clear that the president and the vice president heard us and they heard the American people,” Mayor Bloomber...
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Mayors Against Illegal Guns gathered in Washington to push three points that have made up the bulk of the organization's agenda, including standardized enforcement of gun laws nationally, an assault-weapons ban and a ban on high-capacity magazines. The group framed its proposals as "common sense" actions designed to reduce gun violence.
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