[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10182]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN VIOLENCE

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, as the representative of New Jersey's Tenth 
Congressional District--which suffered one-third of the State's total 
gun deaths last year--I know the destruction that gun violence 
inflicts, and I know how important it is that we do more to keep guns 
out of the wrong hands.
  Today we stand with the vast majority of the American people in 
support of a very simple principle: our gun laws should uphold and 
protect the freedom of all Americans--that includes responsible gun 
owners and those Americans trying to exercise their basic right to be 
free from gun violence.
  We stand with the vast majority of Americans who believe that, if you 
are too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun; who 
believe that we need to keep guns from criminals, domestic abusers, and 
dangerously mentally ill individuals.
  Mr. Speaker, on this day of action, we renew our call for Republican 
leadership to give the American people a vote that is bipartisan in 
nature on gun safety legislation. We cannot continue to have the NRA 
stand for ``no Republican action.''

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