Hoosiers To Deliver Petitions Thursday Calling On Indiana Representatives To Support King-Thompson Bill And Comprehensive, Life-Saving Background Checks

CARMEL, Ind. and MISHAWAKA, Ind., May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns:

Gun violence survivors and concerned Hoosiers will deliver petitions to the offices of U.S. Representative Susan Brooks and U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski Thursday, calling on them to support comprehensive, life-saving background checks on all gun sales. Recent independent polls have found that 89 Percent of Hoosiers support background checks for all buyers.  

Petitions to be delivered urge representatives to vote for bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House introduced in April by Representatives Pete King (R-N.Y.) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) that would close the loopholes that make it easy for criminals and dangerous people to get guns. The King-Thompson legislation is identical to bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate introduced by Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Pat Toomey (R-PA).

Among those to deliver petitions in Carmel will be Stephen Dunlop, M.D., President of the Hoosiers Concerned about Gun Violence; Pat King, with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; and Joantyonette Lisendy-Grundy, gun violence survivor. In Mishawaka, Stephen Miller, a gun violence survivor will lead the petition drop-off.

Event details are below (all times local.)

Carmel
What: Hoosiers to Deliver Petitions Calling on U.S. Representative Brooks to Support                        
Comprehensive, Life-Saving Background Checks

Who: Stephen Dunlop M.D, President of Hoosiers Concerned about Gun Violence
Pat King, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
Joantyonette Lisendy-Grundy, gun violence survivor

Where: Office of U.S. Representative Susan Brooks - 11611 North Meridian Street, Suite
415, Carmel, IN 46032

When: Thursday, May 30^th, 11:00 AM

Mishawaka
What: Hoosiers to Deliver Petitions Calling on U.S. Representative Walorski to Support                        
Comprehensive, Life-Saving Background Checks

Who: Stephen Miller, gun violence survivor

Where: Office of U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski - 202 Lincoln Way East, Suite                        
#101 Mishawaka, IN 46544

When: Thursday, May 30, 12:00 PM

About Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Since its creation in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15 members to more than 950 mayors from across the country. We have more than 1.5 million grassroots supporters, making us the largest gun violence prevention advocacy organization in the country.  The bipartisan coalition, co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, has united the nation's mayors around these common goals: protecting communities by holding gun offenders accountable; demanding access to crime gun trace data that is critical to law enforcement efforts to combat gun trafficking; and working with legislators to fix weaknesses and loopholes in the law that make it far too easy for criminals and other dangerous people to get guns.  Learn more at www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org

MEDIA CONTACT
Erika Soto Lamb: [email protected] or 646-580-5281
Kate Downen: [email protected] or 406-224-5056

SOURCE Mayors Against Illegal Guns

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