[Continued from Part 1 of 2] In 1992, our family helped lobby for the Brady Bill and its five-day "cooling off" period in the purchase of a gun. My mother met with her then — L.A. congressman, Democrat Anthony Beilenson of Woodland Hills, a pivotal vote on 1994's Brady Law and assault-weapons ban. Though the sorrow at times felt endless, these modest victories for sanity brought our family some measure of relief. According to Handgun Control, now known as the Brady... (GunPolicy.org)