"Ceasefire Oregon ... strongly support[s] the McCain-Bill, S.890, requiring criminal background checks at gun shows."

Diana Madarieta, Executive Director
Ceasefire Oregon
 

"With gun shows as the second leading source of crime guns nationally, we must work together to close this dangerous loophole in the Brady law in every state."

Rebecca Thoman, Executive Director
Citizens for a Safer Minnesota
 

"We are very proud that Senator McCain has taken a leadership role on this issue."

Geraldine Anderson, Executive Director
Citizens of Arizona to Prevent Gun Violence
 

"The board of directors of the Florida Coalition To Stop Handgun Violence has voted to support the McCain-Lieberman gun show loophole legislation 100%."

Arthur C. Hayhoe, Executive Director
Florida Coalition To Stop Handgun Violence
 

"Here in Georgia, the McCain-Lieberman bill has immense potential for reducing crime and violence."

Alice Johnson, Executive Director
Georgians for Gun Safety
 

"[We] are very grateful that [Senator McCain] and Senator Lieberman have introduced a bill to close the gun show loophole and it is with great pleasure that we support this measure."

Nadine Onodera, Executive Director
Hawaii Firearms Control Coalition
 

"Our organization strongly endorses this measure [McCain-Lieberman] and stands ready to assist in any way in promoting this legislation."

Roberta L. Ross, President
Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence (IN)
 

"Senators McCain and Lieberman and Americans for Gun Safety are to be congratulated for their care and foresight in the development of doable, common sense legislation...."

Carolynne Jarvis, Executive Director
Michigan Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence
 

"Missourians Against Handgun Violence is deeply appreciative of the tremendous effort by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman and Americans for Gun Safety to fix this terrible but eminently fixable problem."

Mary Wertsch, Executive Director
Missourians Against Handgun Violence
 

"[W]e feel [that] McCain-Lieberman is a common-sense bill which effectively balances gun owners' rights with the responsibility to keep guns from criminals."

Charles Drew, Executive Director
New Hampshire Ceasefire
 

"The final bill must provide incentives to improve the computer files that are the basis of the National Instant Check System. McCain-Lieberman provides incentives and monies to make sure that computer records are improved."

Barbara Hohlt, Chair
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
 

"We endorse the McCain-Lieberman Bill as an effective, carefully crafted way to make buyers at gun shows nationwide undergo thorough background checks."

Lisa Price, Executive Director
North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Education Fund
 

"We also support the unique aspects of the McCain-Lieberman bill requiring increased funding for more ATF agents, more prosecutors, and the effort to increase the efficiency of the NIC System…."

William F. Owen, Executive Director
Pennsylvanians Against Handgun Violence
 

"We salute Senators McCain and Lieberman for introducing, on a bi-partisan basis, S.890. Closing the gun show loophole on a federal basis is important in making our homes, streets, offices and schools safer."

Arnold Grossman and John F. Head, Board of Directors
SAFE Colorado
 

"I am most pleased and proud to re-affirm our support of the efforts of Senators McCain and Lieberman to create safer communities by closing the gun show loophole."

Karole Bradford, Program Director
Safe State Kansas
 

"The bill would close these loopholes and create incentives for state record keeping that would further keep guns out of the hands of restricted buyers."

John E. Rosenthal, Chair
Stop Handgun Violence (Mass.)
 

"At the present time we are planning how best to mobilize our members and members of the press in such a way that will influence lawmakers from Texas to support S.890."

Dave Smith, President
Texans for Gun Safety
 

"[We] endorse S.890 ... to close the gun show loophole."

Jim Sollo, President
Virginians Against Handgun Violence
 

"On behalf of all of our 7,000 members and supporters in Washington State we strongly encourage the passage of S.890."

Bruce Gryniewski, Executive Director
Washington Ceasefire
 

"The McCain-Lieberman bill will answer the charge that gun safety groups do not care about enforcement."

Roberta Golan Schiller, Executive Director
Women Against Gun Violence