Hoosiers To Demand Answers From Senator Coats On His 'No' Vote On Background Checks And Unanswered Meeting Requests

Gun Violence Survivors and Family Members Requested Meetings to Ask Why Coats Voted Against a Commonsense, Life-Saving Solution Supported by 89 Percent of Indiana Voters; www.DemandAction.org

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SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Indiana gun violence survivors and family members will gather on Friday in South Bend to demand a response to their requests to meet with Senator Dan Coats to learn more about why he voted against the 89 percent of Indiana voters who support background checks for gun sales. Parents, families, friends and individuals who have been affected by gun violence have sent letters and emails asking for a face-to-face meeting and an explanation on Coats' vote against commonsense background checks – their requests have gone unanswered.

The bipartisan legislation Coats voted against, sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, would have closed the loopholes that make it easy for dangerous people to get guns.

Details of the event are below:

What: Indiana gun violence survivors and family members demand response from Senator Coats on unanswered meeting requests

Who:  Stephen Miller—brother Thomas was killed with a gun as a young man and nephew Christopher committed suicide with a gun
Other Indiana gun violence survivors and family members

When:  Friday, May 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m.

Where:  St. Joseph County Courthouse: 101 South Main Street, South Bend, IN

About Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Since its creation in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15 members to more than 900 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.

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SOURCE Mayors Against Illegal Guns

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