Following the Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign and the Brady Center, said that the fight to enact sensible gun laws will be undiminished by the Supreme Court's decision in the Heller case.

While the Justices disagreed by the narrowest of margins, 5 - 4, on whether the Second Amendment provides an individual, non-militia based right to bear arms, all nine Justices agreed that a wide variety of gun laws are presumptively constitutional, including restrictions on carrying concealed weapons, guns in schools and other sensitive places, and bans on "dangerous and unusual" weapons.

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.

Click here to view a demonstration of micro-stamping technology.

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.