New Jersey Gov. Murphy signed a package of gun restrictions that will make it easier for the state attorney general to sue gun manufacturers when their weapons cause public harm, ban .50 caliber rifles, require training to obtain a gun license and more.
during a July 4th parade in a Chicago suburb. Murphy said the new measures “are common sense, they are smart, they live up to our Jersey values.”
“These are not going to be our last words on gun safety,” Murphy added, vowing to take action following theto overturn a New York state law and make it easier for gun owners to bring concealed handguns into public spaces. “We’re not going to just lay down and let our streets, our houses of worship, our supermarkets, shopping malls, sports arenas, our bars or anywhere else, to be overrun with hidden guns capable of unleashing a hail of bullets,” Murphy said.
“Families who experience gun violence, it doesn’t just end with the demise of that person, gun violence is intergenerational in terms of the impact that it has on families,” Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver said Tuesday, calling the gun reform package as long overdue. “A chain gets broken within a family when someone is the subject of gun violence.”
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