2015-10-08 Introduced in House Establishes the House Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to investigate and report on:

• the causes of mass shootings,
• methods to improve the federal firearms purchaser background check system,
• connections between access to firearms and dangerously mentally ill individuals,
• strengthening federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchasing of firearms,
• closing loopholes that allow some domestic abusers continued access to firearms,
• linkages between firearms and suicide,
• gun violence's effect on public health,
• the correlation between state gun violence prevention laws and the incidence of gun violence,
• the importance of having reliable and accurate information on gun violence and its toll on our nation,
• the implementation of effective gun violence prevention laws in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and
• rates of gun violence in large metropolitan areas.

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