article_snippet.sent: After that, the Bradys made it the Bradys business to be gun control activists.
article_snippet.sent: Despite budgets that were just a fraction of the gun lobby's, the Bradys and the Bradys colleagues helped pass federal and state laws, including Maryland's 1988 ban on cheap handguns known as Saturday night specials, 1993's Brady law requiring background checks on certain kinds of gun purchases and a ban on manufacturing and future sales of some military-style firearms, which lasted from 1994 to 2004.
article_snippet.sent: Former President Bill Clinton, who signed the Brady bill in 1993, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a joint statement Saturday that the Bradys "were fierce champions of sensible gun legislation.
article_snippet.sent: Sen Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat who helped write the James Brady bill, concurred.
article_snippet.sent: the Brady bill was fiercely fought over for seven years before Congress approved
article_snippet.sent: the Brady bill and President Bill Clinton signed the Brady bill into law in 1993.