[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4984-H4985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN VIOLENCE

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I am proud that the Nation's Capital has the 
strongest gun safety laws in the country. Yet the Capitol complex was 
on lockdown Tuesday as D.C. Police chased suspects armed with a machine 
gun and shooting at police near the Capitol.
  People and their guns travel in interstate commerce instantly making 
our country's gun problem national, not local. D.C.'s strong gun safety 
laws are still on the books, despite pro-gun lawsuits and incessantly 
proposed Republican riders. But local and State laws

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to protect our people are undermined by inaction by this Congress.
  The Charleston loophole is the decent place to begin. We sat in on 
the House floor because we could not go home in silence for July 
Fourth. Today, we declare no recess from the gun show loophole until 
universal background checks become the law of the land.

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