Resolution Number: 1976-C052
Title: Urge Congress to Adopt Effective Hand Gun Control Legislation
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Substituted
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 65th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, meeting in Minneapolis, September 11-23, 1976, urge the Congress of the United States to adopt effective hand gun legislation as promptly as possible and that this resolution be communicated to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senators Birch Bayh and James Eastland of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, and to the President of the National Rifle Association; and be it further

Resolved, That this General Convention urge all citizens to support federal, state, and local legislation aimed at controlling the sale and use of hand guns.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis 1976 (New York: General Convention, 1977), p. C-107.

Legislative History

Author:
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on National and International Problems

House of Bishops

On the Tenth Day, the Bishop Coadjutor of Washington, Chairman of the Committee on National and International Affairs [sic], moved the adoption of the following Resolution (C-52--Hand Gun Control):

Whereas, there is no effective control over the ownership and use of hand guns in this nation; and

Whereas, many people are injured or killed each year by hand guns in accidents, in crimes of passion and in criminal acts; and

Whereas, in the United States of America one can purchase any of a wide variety of hand guns with minimal, if any, restrictions from local, state or federal agencies; now therefore be it

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that the 65th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, meeting in Minneapolis, September 11-23, 1976, urge the Congress of the United States to adopt effective hand gun legislation as promptly as possible and that this resolution be communicated to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senators Birch Bayh and James Eastland of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, and to the President of the National Rifle Association; and be it further

Resolved, that this General Convention urge all citizens to support federal, state, and local legislation aimed at controlling the sale and use of hand guns.

The motion was seconded by the Bishop of Western Michigan.

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #182)

House of Deputies

On the Tenth Day, the Secretary read Message #182 from the House of Bishops on Resolution C-52, substitute, Manufacture and Sale of Handguns.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #150)

Abstract:   The 65th General Convention urges that the U.S. Congress adopt effective hand gun legislation and that citizens support this legislation.