[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 24 (Monday, June 21, 1999)]
[Pages 1135-1136]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on House Action on Gun Control Legislation

June 18, 1999

    Instead of closing the deadly gun show loophole, the House of 
Representatives voted in the dark of night to let criminals keep buying 
guns at gun shows. This vote will not stand the light of day. I will 
keep working until the Congress stands up to the gun lobby and makes the 
commonsense measures passed by the Senate the law of

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the land. We owe it to the families of the children who died in 
Littleton to give all Americans the safety they deserve.