Nevadans To Protest Senator Dean Heller For Voting Against Background Checks On Saturday

***Media Advisory***

Mayors Against Illegal Guns Announces "Shame On You" Protest at Senator Heller's Office

Heller Voted Against Commonsense, Life-Saving Solutions Supported by 90 Percent of Nevadans; www.DemandAction.org

LAS VEGAS, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayors Against Illegal Guns announced today that concerned Nevadans will gather with Mayors Against Illegal Guns, ProgressNow Nevada, and veteran and gun owner Johnathan L. Abbinett on Saturday for a "Shame on You" protest against Senator Dean Heller, who voted with the Washington gun lobby and against the 90 percent of Nevadans who support commonsense, life-saving background checks for all gun sales. 

This week Senator Heller was among those who voted against bipartisan legislation proposed by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey that would have closed the loopholes that make it easy for criminals and dangerous people to get guns.

Event details are below.

Las Vegas
What: "Shame on You" Protest on Senator Heller's Office
Who: Johnathan L. Abbinett, veteran and gun owner
Joel Bridgeman, Mayors Against Illegal Guns Nevada Field Director
Brian Fadie, Executive Director of ProgressNow Nevada
When: Saturday, April 20 at 11 AM
Where: Senator Heller's Office, Lloyd D. George Building, 333 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Suite 8016

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.

Media Contact
Erika Soto Lamb: [email protected] or 646-580-5281
Alex Katz: [email protected] or 617-721-3779

SOURCE Mayors Against Illegal Guns

WANT YOUR COMPANY'S NEWS FEATURED ON PRNEWSWIRE.COM?

440k+
Newsrooms &
Influencers

9k+
Digital Media
Outlets

270k+
Journalists
Opted In

GET STARTED