[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3611]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         CALLING FOR SENSIBLE GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION THIS WEEK

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to support sensible gun 
safety legislation to protect our young people. We have a lot of 
problems in this country and espionage is one of them, but the most 
pressing problem we have today is gun violence. We need to pass 
sensible gun safety legislation now.
  First, we need to pass child safety locks, so that babies and young 
people cannot get ready access to guns and have accidents of tragic 
consequences.
  Second, we need background checks at pawn shops and at gun shows, so 
thugs cannot buy guns off the market and then sell them in our 
communities to our young people.
  Third, we need to ban these high-capacity ammunition clips that are 
imported into our country. This is not the movie Matrix. We are not 
having gunfights with drug lords on the streets. The average citizen 
has a right to have a gun, and I believe that, but we in Congress have 
a responsibility to enact sensible gun control.
  The second point I want to make this morning is we need to do it now. 
This is not rocket science. We need to move on gun control legislation 
this week, before we go home.

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