[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 289 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 289

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 
  114th 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

                              June 2, 2015

 Mr. Lowenthal (for himself, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Esty, and 
 Mrs. Capps) 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 
  114th 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 114th 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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