[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ALL GUNS SHOULD HAVE TRIGGER LOCKS

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, our thoughts and our tears and our prayers 
are with the families of Jonesboro, Arkansas. No parent, no child, no 
school should have to suffer this way. I beg every parent with a gun in 
the home and every gun manufacturer to please, please listen.
  There are two ways that children get a gun. They either take it from 
their home without their parents' knowledge or they steal it from a 
neighbor. You lock your car. You lock your home. You should lock your 
gun. Every gun should be sold with a childproof trigger safety lock 
that only the parents know how to unlock.
  A borrowed gun, a stolen gun should be a harmless gun. Please, make 
your gun useless to others. Make it harmless with a trigger lock. I am 
asking every parent who owns a gun to purchase a trigger lock today and 
make your gun safe. I am asking all gun manufacturers to include a 
trigger lock with every gun sale.

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