Former president Bill Clinton said May 4 that enacting gun control was “one of the greatest honors of my life.”

Clinton was speaking at a Brady Campaign’s gun control awards ceremony in Los Angeles, May 4.

Breitbart News previously reported that Brad Pitt and Adam McKay were co-chairs for the ceremony. And People magazine reports that Clinton attended and gave “an impromptu 30-minute speech at [the] event.”

Clinton referenced signing the Brady Handgun Prevention Act in 1993, which eventually spawned the background check system for gun purchases in 1998. He also referenced signing an “assault weapons” ban in 1994, which included a ban on “high capacity” ammunition magazines. He said, “One of the great honors of my life was signing the Brady law, and then a year later in the crime bill the assault weapons ban and the ammunition clip ban.”

He referenced visiting locations where high profile gun crimes have occurred and spending time with gun control Gabby Giffords, who has spent the past three years campaigning to force every gun owner to pass the same background check her attacker passed to acquire his firearm.

Clinton called on gun control supporters to “redeem the loss” of gun crime victims by pushing for more gun controls for law-abiding citizens.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.