Melvin Whitley is optimistic that the Durham City Council will endorse his "Bullet Ownership Bill" Monday night.

"Right now I'm holding six votes," he said Tuesday night. The City Council has seven members.

The Rev. Melvin Whitley asked the Durham City Council to support his "bullet ownership bill" Thursday, and got a mixed reception.

While council member Howard Clement and Mayor Pro-Tem Cora Cole-McFadden expressed enthusiastic support, council member Eugene Brown said, "There are lot more things that we can do that might pass constitutional muster and legislative muster and do a lot more good."

The so-called "Bullet Ownership Bill" will have to wait.

A Thursday meeting of the city council's legislative committee, at which the bill was due for discussion, was cancelled early Wednesday afternoon.