CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: President Clinton heads to Denver this morning in his campaign for gun safety legislation. His visit comes a week before the anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. CNN correspondent Carl Rochelle is at the White House with more details on this. Good morning, Carl.</s>CARL ROCHELLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. Well, the president is going to Denver to try to accomplish, on a local basis, what he has not been able to accomplish on a national basis, and that is safer gun-control laws. And it's just a week, as you noted, before the one-year anniversary of the school shootings at the Columbine High School in Colorado. Mr. Clinton will throw his weight behind a Colorado gun initiative that would close the so-called gun show loophole where guns can be sold on an individual basis without background checks that are normally required for gun sales at gun dealers. White House efforts to get Congress to close the loophole on a nationwide basis have so far been unsuccessful. In addition to participating in the "Safe Colorado" rally, Mr. Clinton will also hold a town hall meeting on the issue later in the day. Yesterday, Mr. Clinton went to Annapolis where Governor Parris Glendening signed into law a tough new gun-control bill that requires new handguns sold in the state to be equipped with built-in locks beginning in three years. Until then, all new pistols and revolvers will have to be sold with separate trigger locks beginning October 1. Maryland is the first state to require guns to be sold with locks. It is also the first time that President Clinton has attended a state bill-signing ceremony. But he used the event to call for national legislation requiring child-proof locks on all new guns. So the trip to Denver will be to take on the road the initiative, the effort, to try to get safer gun-control laws passed, what he has not been able to get the Congress to do. I'm Carl Rochelle, CNN, reporting live from the White House.</s>LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: All right, thank you, Carl. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web
President Clinton to Campaign for Gun Safety Legislation in Colorado