[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 33 (Wednesday, March 22, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            NRA RUNNING OUT OF ARGUMENTS AGAINST GUN SAFETY

  (Mr. CONYERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, the House passed the Lofgren motion a week 
ago instructing the conferees to insist that the comatose gun safety 
conference meet. A week later, the silence is deafening.
  The silence you hear, Mr. Speaker, is the NRA, National Rifle 
Association, running out of arguments against gun safety. First they 
said the gun laws do not work, but the Brady law stopped 500,000 
felons, fugitives and stalkers from buying guns.
  Then they said we need to enforce the laws. So now everyone supports 
enforcement.
  But when you hear the NRA cry its misleading statistics, remember, it 
is a trick, a trick to divert attention from their opposition to 
closing the gun show loophole, a trick so that the NRA does not have to 
explain why it supports laws that allow criminals to get their guns 
back, and it is a farce. The NRA opposed the laws they now want so 
badly enforced, and the NRA has made sure that the agencies that 
enforce the gun laws can only do so with one arm tied behind their 
back.

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