More on Mayor Bloomberg's War on Guns

More than a dozen mayors are to meet at Gracie Mansion next week to discuss ways of stopping illegal gun traffic and reducing gun violence.

Mayors Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and Thomas M. Menino of Boston are organizing the meeting, which will be attended by mayors from Seattle, Dallas, Washington, Milwaukee and cities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Mr. Bloomberg has made combating illegal guns a priority of his second term, and the meeting will be a "positive move" to address a national problem, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said yesterday. "Our shootings are down this year; still, there's way too many guns," he said. . . .