Gun Violence Prevention
December 28, 2014
Malik, who lives in the impoverished, high-crime Englewood neighborhood on the South Side with his mother and two sisters, had only one wish this year when he participated in a local charity’s annual Letters to Santa program. It wasn’t electronics, nor clothes, nor games. “All I ask for is for safety. I just wanna be safe,” Malik wrote earlier this month.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
May 29, 2014
Under current law, licensed gun dealers are required to run potential weapons buyers through NICS to screen out felons, illegal immigrants, spousal abusers, the severely mentally ill, or another category that would bar them from buying or owning weapons. The system, however, is largely voluntary: States are encouraged, but not required, to report information to NICS.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
May 29, 2014
An amendment offered by U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 260-145-1, making it the first gun violence related legislation to pass this Congress.
May 29, 2014
House lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday that boosts funding for the federal system of background checks for gun purchases, less than a week after a gunman’s rampage in a California college town reignited debate over gun control.
May 8, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) offered two amendments to the FY2015 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill to increase federal public safety resources and help law enforcement combat gun violence in Chicago.
May 7, 2014
Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., said he will offer an amendment that would reverse a Republican-sponsored provision in the fiscal 2013 continuing resolution (PL 113-6) that banned, on a permanent basis, any federal rule that requires gun dealers to conduct physical inventories to determine whether firearms have been lost or stolen.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
February 21, 2014
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) hosted a roundtable discussion at DePaul University highlighting the plague of gun violence in Chicago.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
September 30, 2013
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) applauded the announcement of a $1.875 million federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant for the hiring of 15 new Chicago police officers.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
August 1, 2013
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement following the Senate’s confirmation of B. Todd Jones as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention
July 28, 2013
The City of Chicago is in a war against illegal guns, and we’re losing.
Issues:
Gun Violence Prevention