[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 468 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 468

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that gun violence 
 is a public health issue and Congress should enact by the end of the 
  113th Congress comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the 
  Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including 
 expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, 
improving the mental health system in the United States, and making gun 
           trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal crime.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2014

 Mr. Lowenthal (for himself, Mr. Thompson of California, and Ms. Esty) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
   on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that gun violence 
 is a public health issue and Congress should enact by the end of the 
  113th Congress comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the 
  Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including 
 expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, 
improving the mental health system in the United States, and making gun 
           trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal crime.

    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) gun violence is a public health issue; and
            (2) Congress should enact by the end of the 113th Congress 
        comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the Second 
        Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including 
        expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun 
        sales, improving the mental health system in the United States, 
        and making gun trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal 
        crime.
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