New Jersey lawmakers advance bills to tighten gun laws
Source: Associated Press
Mike Catalini, Associated Press Updated 3:46 pm, Monday, March 26, 2018
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's Democrat-led Assembly on Monday passed a half-dozen bills aimed at strengthening the state's already-strict gun laws, including a measure to permit the seizure of weapons upon a court order.
The legislation comes just days after thousands marched across the country to call for tightening gun laws and the same day as Second Amendment advocates in Trenton rallied against the legislation.
The bill's sponsors cast the measures as part of an effort to keep New Jersey's firearms laws among the most stringent in the country. The legislation was introduced before the fatal Florida high school shooting in February that left 17 people dead, but began to move forward after that tragedy.
"New Jersey's gun safety laws are among the strongest in the nation and we must keep them that way," Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald said.
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