Media Advisory: Oregon Gun Owners to Hold Roundtable Discussion in Support of Common-Sense Background Checks in Clackamas on Thursday

81 Percent of Oregonians– and 82 Percent of Gun Owners Nationally – Support Comprehensive, Tough-On-Crime Background Checks

*** MEDIA ADVISORY***

CLACKAMAS, Ore., Aug. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gun owners will hold a roundtable discussion in Clackamas Thursday to discuss comprehensive background checks that will help keep guns out of the wrong hands. 81 percent of Oregonians support common-sense background checks, according to a January poll conducted for The Oregonian. Additionally, 82 percent of gun owners nationwide – including 74 percent of NRA members – support this tough-on-crime measure.  

There is currently bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House that would close the loopholes that make it easy for criminals and dangerous people to get guns.  Introduced by Reps. Peter King (R-N.Y.) and Mike Thompson (D-CA), the King-Thompson bill is the corresponding legislation to the amendment in the U.S. Senate introduced by Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Pat Toomey (R-PA).

Events details are below:

About Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Since its creation in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15 members to more than 1,000 mayors from across the country. The coalition has more than 1.5 million grassroots supporters, making it the largest gun violence prevention advocacy organization in the country. Co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Mayors Against Illegal Guns 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 CONTACTS
Kate Downen: [email protected] or 406-224-5056
Jack Warner: [email protected] or 646-324-8246

SOURCE Mayors Against Illegal Guns

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