Following the recent mass shootings across the country, Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) reaffirmed his commitment to working on sensible gun reform to save lives.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., voiced support for raising the minimum age to buy firearms on Sunday following a spate of mass shootings committed by adults younger than 21. "I think that raising the age of gun purchase to 21 is a no-brainer. If you look at the Parkland shooting, you look at Buffalo, you look at this shooting, these are people under the age of 21," Kinzinger told ABC News. "We know that the human brain develops and matures a lot between the age of 18 and 21. We just raised, without...
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., discusses why he believes the gun buying age should be 21, and he also discusses new reporting that former President Trump on January 6 reacted approvingly to chants about hanging then-VP Mike Pence. You can watch the full interview on the MSNBC website here.
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Today, the House voted on H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021 and Congressman Kinzinger released this statement on his vote.
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America’s hospital-based violence intervention programs would be expanded under bipartisan legislation recently introduced by U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). “I’m proud to introduce legislation with my colleague to fund violence intervention programs,” Rep. Kinzinger said. “By supporting victims with the resources and education to pursue a different path, we can stop the vicious cycle of gun violence and give people hope for a better tomorrow.” Rep. Kinzinger on Feb. 11 cosponsored the Bipartis...
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This week, Congressmen Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) introduced legislation to expand hospital-based violence intervention programs around the country.
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CHICAGO — Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health held a hearing in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood Thursday on the impact of gun violence. "This epidemic has had painful consequences for far too many families here in Chicago," said Rep. Bobby Rush, whose son Huey was murdered in 1999. Several other members of Congress from the Chicago area weighed in on the issue, at The Great Hall at Kennedy-King College, on the proposal to declare gun violence a publi...
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CHICAGO, Ill. (WIFR) - It's been four days since Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger posted a critical tweet about President Trump, and he had not spoken to the media about it until Thursday. 23 News Anchor Mike Garrigan was the first reporter in the country to get one-on-one reaction from the 16th District Congressman at Kennedy King College in Chicago, where he was the ranking Republican at a Congressional Subcommittee hearing on the gun violence epidemic in America. The original article with ...
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An unusual session at Kennedy-King College will give federal lawmakers another take on what's behind Chicago's murder wave and whether to treat it as a health emergency.
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