[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SAVE OUR CHILDREN FROM GUN VIOLENCE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, in this week to stop gun violence, it 
is important to remind all of you that 4.6 million minors live with 
guns in the home, many of those unstored. Every year, almost 20,000 
children are shot and killed or wounded by firearms. In fact, homicide 
is now the number one killer of children.
  Kimberly Vaughan, a young innocent of 14 years old with a wonderful 
mother who served in the military, was killed in 2018 when a 17-year-
old student went on a shooting spree. Those guns were left in the home.
  Mr. Speaker, I introduced the Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage 
Act, and I ask my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to join me.
  The act provides for the Attorney General to give voluntary practices 
related to safe firearm storage and to label and publish them on a 
website advising persons to safely store their firearms. It would urge 
retailers to provide storage locks to secure devices when possible. It 
would provide a $10 million grant program to States, local governments, 
and nonprofits to distribute safe storage devices, at no burden to you 
whatsoever. Of course, they will receive a tax credit for doing so.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my Republican and Democratic colleagues to join 
us. Save lives. Save our children's lives. Stop gun violence with the 
Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act.

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