Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Bloomberg
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg bluntly told a Congressional panel that an awful piece of legislation before the House of Representatives would cripple the city's ability to combat gun trafficking. The mayor has made taking on the gun industry a central theme of his second term and has repeatedly used his bully pulpit to draw national attention to the issue. Mr. Bloomberg told the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security that illegal guns were used in 300 of the 540 homicides in the city last year, and that 82 percent of the guns used in crimes in the city were bought outside the state. Mr. Bloomberg presented letters of support from the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia, as well as from Joseph J. Vince Jr., a former chief of crime-gun analysis at the firearms bureau.