A video recording primarily featuring a 1990 ABC News documentary special with Peter Jennings on gun violence and gun control in the United States. The documentary was made a year after the January 17, 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in Stockton, California. In a Good Morning America news program in the later half of the recording, U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin notably appears in a joint interview with Wayne LaPierre on the topic of the Brady Bill.
A video featuring 1991 news coverage and a group interview with US Representatives Les AuCoin, Susan Molinari, Harley Staggers, and Jack Fields on the of the Brady Bill. Officially named the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, the Brady Bill did not officially pass into law until 1993.
A video recording primarily featuring two interviews with US Congressman Les AuCoin on gun control and the Brady Bill of 1991 (officially named the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, it was not officially passed into law until 1993) which proposed a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns. AuCoin, who originally opposed the bill, advocated for the bill as a form of gun control following the news of Ronald Reagan's support the bill.
Article written by Representative Les AuCoin discussing his changing perspective on the National Rifle Association and his support for the Brady Bill. The Brady Bill, a short name for the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, mandated background checks and a waiting period for firearm purchases. Representative AuCoin had previously argued against gun control, but this 1991 article in the Washington Post marked a significant change in his position. This document is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives.
