The bill was introduced by Bobby Rush, an Illinois representative who has served since 1993. He tried to introduce a similar version of the same bill in 2007, and it failed. This current bill doesn't have a single co-sponsor, and will most likely die in committee without ever being brought up for a vote in front of the entire House.

Even people in charge of pro-gun activist groups think this bill has a snowball's chance in hell of passing, and aren't concerned about it.




There will always be people like Bobby Rush, building political capital by tugging at the heart strings and attaching a child's name to a bill. It's a publicity stunt and has absolutely NOTHING to do with the current administration - he tried it before Obama was in office, and he failed then, too.