[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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                 HOMICIDES BY GUNSHOT IN NEW YORK CITY

  Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I rise, as has been my practice each 
week in this session of the 103d Congress, to announce to the Senate 
that during the last week, 15 people were killed in New York City by 
gunshot, bringing this year's total to 728.
  Recently, I received a note from Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Locicero, a 
couple from Hawthorne, NJ. Last December, the Lociceros' 27-year-old 
daughter, Amy Locicero Federici, was killed on the Long Island 
Railroad, when an obviously deranged gunman with a 9-millimeter 
semiautomatic pistol opened fire on a crowd of unsuspecting commuters. 
The note from the Locicero family read simply:

       On behalf of our murdered daughter, we thank you for your 
     courage in taking a strong stand to ban assault weapons.

  In truth, no one could be more courageous than the Lociceros, who, 
despite their grievous loss, maintain a commitment to preventing 
tragedies--like the one that took their daughter's life--from befalling 
others.
  Mr. President, we passed the ban on assault weapons last month when 
the House and Senate finally agreed to the crime bill. That was a step 
in the right direction, but as we all know, it will not end the 
epidemic of gun violence in this country. Nevertheless, by making the 
most pernicious types of weapons--and bullets, as I have proposed--
harder to obtain, we can prevent many deaths like those that occurred 
last year on the Long Island Railroad.

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