Mayors Against Illegal Guns To Co-Sponsor Gun Safety Rally and March From Trenton, NJ To Morrisville, PA

MORRISVILLE, Pa., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayors Against Illegal Guns will join a coalition of nearly 20 organizations calling for expanded background checks and other sensible gun laws tomorrow. The groups will begin with a rally in Trenton, NJ and march across the Trenton Makes Bridge to Williamson Park in Morrisville, Bucks County where they will be joined by former Governor Ed Rendell and state Rep. Steve Santarsiero who has introduced a bill to extend background checks to every gun sale in Pennsylvania.

WHAT: Mother's Day rally against gun violence

WHO: Former Pennsylvania Governor and Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell
Pennsylvania state Representative Steve Santarsiero
Representatives from Coalition for Peace Action and other sponsoring groups

WHEN:  TOMORROW Saturday, May 11, 2013
2:00 p.m. in Trenton, NJ
3:00 p.m. in Morrisville, PA (approximately)

WHERE:  Rally begins 2:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 128 Centre Street, Trenton, NJ 08611
March across the Trenton Makes Bridge to Morrisville, PA at about 2:55 p.m.
Rally continues at about 3:00 p.m. in Williamson Park, 639 N Delmorr Ave, Morrisville, PA 19067

RSVP: Dave Scholnick, [email protected]

Co-sponsoring organizations include:

Bucks Safe, Bus for Progress, Coalition for Peace Action (regional office and Buxmont Chapters), CeaseFirePA, Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia, Mothers Against Violence, Heeding God's Call, NJ Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Bucks Against Gun Violence, Keystone Progress, Lower Merion United, NJ Citizen Action, PA 7 United for Sensible Gun Laws, The Peace Center (based in Langhorne, PA); New Jersey, Philadelphia and Southeastern PA Chapters of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; Trenton Friends Meeting, Trenton NAACP, Chester County Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

About Mayors Against Illegal Guns

Since its creation in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15 members to more than 950 mayors from across the country. We have more than 1.5 million grassroots supporters, making us the largest gun violence prevention advocacy organization in the country.  The bipartisan coalition, co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, has united the nation's mayors around these common goals: protecting communities by holding gun offenders accountable; demanding access to crime gun trace data that is critical to law enforcement efforts to combat gun trafficking; and working with legislators to fix weaknesses and loopholes in the law that make it far too easy for criminals and other dangerous people to get guns.  Learn more at www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org

CONTACT
Dave Scholnick, [email protected] or 717-723-8864
Kate Downen, [email protected] or 406-224-5056 

SOURCE Mayors Against Illegal Guns