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Come visit the Bronx’s cheery-sounding Illegal Gun Museum of Death:

It seems to be a disturbing trend these days, but more and more, while crime continues to be touted as going down, a great number of children are becoming the victims of illegal gun violence. And as Mayor Michael Bloomberg fights for gun control, one community organization is using shock tactics to get its message across.

The Illegal Gun Campaign Committee, a sub-committee of the Patterson Volunteer Committee, held a press conference to unveil the newly established Illegal Gun Museum of Death on Saturday, June 1, at the Mott Haven Reformed Church, at 350 E. 146 th Street.

“We simply must attract all the attention that we can to keep these illegal handgun murders in the spotlight until it is eliminated,” said Wallace Hasan, president of the PVC executive board. “The White House and Congress must give these illegal handgun murders the attention it deserves. If the murders of our children, particularly the recent tragedies of two- and three-year-olds, does not make this situation a priority to them, what will?”

Hasan took photos and any news stories about illegal gun deaths, ranging from a tragic fatal shooting that killed a child this Easter to another incident where a stray bullet struck and killed a girl near a local Bronx barbershop, among others, and blew them up to poster size before mounting them on boards and displaying them outside the church for those passing by to see.

The hope is that residents will be shocked and appalled by what they see that they will take action themselves and join the fight to make a difference, similar to how recent shock tactics involving cancer patients on anti-smoking ads have pushed people to quit smoking.