Ohioans To Deliver Petitions Thursday Calling On Representative Pat Tiberi To Support King-Thompson Bill And Comprehensive, Life-Saving Background Checks

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns:

Concerned Ohioans will deliver petitions to the office of U.S. Representative Pat Tiberi Thursday, calling on him to support comprehensive, life-saving background checks on all gun sales. Recent independent polls have found that 83 percent of Ohioans support background checks for all buyers.  

Petitions to be delivered urge Congressman Tiberi 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 delivering petitions will be Jeff Waters, an Ohio faith leader, and Keith Whittington, military vet, gun owner, and medical professional.

Event details are below (all times local.)

Columbus
What:
Ohioans to Deliver Petitions Calling on U.S. Representative Tiberi to Support Comprehensive, Life-Saving Background Checks

Who:  
Jeff Watters, faith leader
Keith Whittington, military vet, gun owner, and medical professional

Where: 
Office of U.S. Representative Pat Tiberi - 3000 Corporate Exchange Drive Suite 310, Columbus, OH 43231

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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