WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is leading a renewed effort to confront the gun violence epidemic plaguing communities across the United States. In a push to address this public health crisis-now the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States-Booker, along with Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Alex Padilla (D-CA), reintroduced legislation that would empower the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) with the authority to establish safetystandards for firearms and ammunition. This legislation would remove a decades...