percent of the 1,002 respondents agreed that "the law is good but more is needed."2 It is without question that this public support played a significant role in the eventual passage of the bill. The Brady bill passed the House in the 102nd Congress After almost four years from its first introduction to the Congress, the Brady bill was reintroduced to the House in the 102nd Congress as HR 7 on January 3, 1991, sponsored by 76 representatives including Feighan, William J Hughes (D-NJ), and Charles Schumer (D!
             -NY). The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee, and the hearings began in the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime on March 21, 1991. As written, this bill required a seven-day waiting period on the handgun purchases. Schumer, the chairman as well as the chief sponsor of the bill, explained before the Subcommittee that the Brady bill "has a very simple purpose: to keep lethal
             handguns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them.3" Aside from the firm support from the public, the bill also gained the backing fr
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