HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell, standing alongside mayors and police officers from across Pennsylvania, urged action Monday on gun-control legislation that is stalled in the General Assembly.

Rendell said polls indicate majorities of Pennsylvanians favor several proposals, including limiting handgun purchases to one per month and requiring owners to report whenever guns are lost or stolen.

"No more ceremonies, no more resolutions," Rendell said during a rally at the state Capitol. "It's time to put your rear end on the line and be counted."

The governor defended the measures as being aimed at protecting police officers and said they are not detrimental to hunters or the state's hunting and firearms tradition.

National Rifle Association lobbyist John Hohenwarter called it "a made-for-TV rally" that obscured larger problems with Philadelphia's impoverished schools, outstanding criminal warrants and police staffing.

"You can put together any kind of push poll to get whatever result you want," he said. "Evidently the polling is off when you have the majority of members of the General Assembly opposing those types of legislation."

The rally was organized by CeaseFire PA, a group backing stricter gun-control laws. Phil Goldsmith, the group's president, said its supporters will not go away "until the General Assembly enacts changes in our handgun laws to make our communities safer."

Attending the rally were a few dozen uniformed police officers, state lawmakers drawn mostly from the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas and the mayors of Philadelphia, Allentown, Bethlehem, Carlisle, Pottsville and Wilkes-Barre.