[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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    GUNS SHOULD BE DENIED TO PEOPLE WITH FAMILY VIOLENCE CONVICTIONS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I join with the gentleman from New 
Jersey [Mr. Torricelli] in pleading with the conferees on the crime 
bill to please keep in our provision vis-a-vis denying guns to people 
who have a long, long list of family violence convictions. Many States 
do not call these criminal, and so therefore it does not fall under the 
Brady bill. But if we have not seen the deadly, deadly outcome of so 
many family disputes this week, we will never see it.
  We are asking Members of Congress to collect names of people who have 
been killed in family violence just in recent times in their area and 
start putting those in the Record. It is time this country finally 
brings this issue out into the sunshine and work to do something about 
it. We can in the crime bill, we must in the crime bill. And when we 
are seeing over 1,500 women a year killed, it is time that this 
stopped.

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