[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 87 (Friday, June 18, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4658]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            WAKE UP, AMERICA

  (Mr. FARR of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I want to ask America to wake 
up. Watch what is going on here on the floor of Congress. America has 
seen that we cannot pass effective gun reform in this Congress because 
we are wedded to the NRA.
  Well, I want you to do something about it. I want you to wake up your 
mayors, city councils, county supervisors, wake up your school boards, 
wake up your State legislators, because they can do what we cannot do. 
They can pass laws regulating gun business.
  Mr. Speaker, 67 cities and dozens of counties in California have 
adopted 183 local firearm regulations, local firearm regulations. The 
State legislature has passed every single law that Congress has 
rejected. California regulates guns; other counties, cities and school 
districts regulate, and so can yours. So local governments can do what 
Congress has refused to do.
  Wake up, America. Get all of the politicians involved in this. Take 
this issue home, and give it to your local legislators and make those 
laws in your own city.

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