Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

JTA – Twenty-three national Jewish organizations signed on to a letter to the U.S. Senate urging members to pass gun control legislation.

In the letter addressed to Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, the Jewish groups called on the Obama administration and Congress “to act quickly to prevent needless firearms deaths and injuries.”

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