White House Press Secretary James Brady was permanently disabled in 1981 from an injury he sustained while saving President Ronald Reagan from assassination. What followed was a renewed push for gun control legislation, resulting inThe Brady Bill,a law harshly opposed in Congress by Sec...
Bill Clinton signed off in 1993 on The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which required background checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) maintained by the FBI before a gun is purchased. [Pictured: President Barack Obama greets James Brady at the White ...