North Carolinians To Protest Senator Richard Burr for Voting Against Background Checks on Friday

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

Burr Voted Against Commonsense, Life-Saving Solutions Supported by 90 Percent of North Carolinians; www.DemandAction.org

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayors Against Illegal Guns announced today that concerned North Carolinians, members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Obama for America will gather Friday for a "Shame on You" protest against Senator Burr, who voted with the Washington gun lobby and against the 90 percent of North Carolinians who support common sense, life-saving background checks for all gun sales. 

This week Senator Burr 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.

Winston-Salem
What: "Shame on You" Protest at Senator Burr's Office
Who: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Obama For America, and concerned North Carolinians
When: Friday, April 19 at 2 PM
Where: Senator Burr's Office, 2000 West First Street Suite 508

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

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