Brady President Paul Helmke was on The Colbert Report recently. Helmke held his own for the Brady Campaign and for sensible gun laws with Mr. Colbert and his brilliantly outlandish antics.

Brady Campaign Welcomes Law Enforcement to Washington, D.C. for National Police Week

The Brady Campaign works closely with law enforcement to help pass sensible gun laws that help to keep dangerous guns out of the hands of dangerous people. We will continue to work with police for strong enforcement of those laws.

Brady Campaign Seeks Accountability from Illinois Legislators

The Brady Campaign is calling upon its members and constituents in Illinois to let their state house representatives know how they feel about their recent votes on HB 758.

This important legislation would have extended Brady background checks to all handgun purchasers.

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They called on Congress to act with the message: "There are too many gun violence victims — and there is something we can do about it. Close the gun show loophole" The events received a tremendous amount of attention and media coverage.

The Brady Campaign was at the U.S. Supreme Court as the Justices heard oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller.

Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke said that he is hopeful that the "ruling will uphold the right of people in communities like the District to enact common sense gun measures they feel are needed to protect themselves and their families."

The Brady Center filed a "friend of the court" brief with numerous law enforcement organizations in January that argued that the D.C. Court of Appeals ruling, if affirmed, would grant courts unprecedented authority to nullify elected officials' decisions to adopt laws they believe are necessary to protect their communities from gun violence.

The decision will be announced in June.

Virginia Tech victims urging Congress to close the gun show loophole at a press conference with Senator Frank Lautenberg and Brady President Paul Helmke.

Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jack Reed introduced legislation [S. 2577] that would strengthen the Brady criminal background check system by closing the gun show loophole.

The Brady Law requires criminal background checks of gun buyers at licensed dealers, but there is a loophole at gun shows. Convicted felons, domestic violence abusers, and those who are dangerously mentally ill can walk into any gun show and buy weapons from unlicensed sellers without being stopped, no questions asked.

Several families of the Virginia Tech massacre and Brady Campaign President, Paul Helmke, joined the Senators on Capitol Hill and urged Congress to pass this important bill that would help keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people.

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Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Congressman Xavier Bacerra introduced legislation that would help law enforcement solve firearm crimes.

The National Crime Gun Identification Act of 2008 would require that all semiautomatic pistols be equipped with microstamped identifiers. That means when a gun is fired, its serial number is stamped on the cartridge. Microstamping takes ballistics identification to a new level of reliability and effectiveness.

Last year, similar ground-breaking legislation was passed in California. It received strong law enforcement support throughout the state.

The Brady Campaign is working to close a dangerous gap in current law. Currently, federal authorities can't stop sales of guns — including military-style assault weapons — by dealers to known or suspected terrorists. This Terror Gap threatens our nation's safety.

Congress must pass the Terror Gap bill to stop known or suspected terrorists from buying guns.