Guns

SUPREME COURT'S SECOND AMENDMENT RULING A JUDICIAL MISFIRE

(WEST ORANGE) - Assemblyman John F. McKeon, a longtime proponent of handgun control laws, today blasted a United States Supreme Court ruling creating a blanket right to gun ownership and limiting the ability of state and local lawmakers to enact sensible gun control measures.

QUIGLEY/VAS BILL LIMITING HANDGUN PURCHASES
TO ONE A MONTH PASSES ASSEMBLY

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley and Assemblyman Joseph Vas sponsored to make it illegal for people to purchase more than one handgun a month in New Jersey - a restriction that would help curtail gun access by criminal street gangs - was today passed by the General Assembly.

QUIGLEY/VAS BILL LIMITING HANDGUN PURCHASES TO ONE A MONTH CLEARS COMMITTEE HURDLE

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley and Assemblyman Joseph Vas sponsored to make it illegal for people to purchase more than one handgun a month in New Jersey - a restriction that would help curtail gun access by criminal street gangs - was released today by the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee.

Sens. Menendez, Lautenberg and Clinton decry failure to strike language known as Tiahrt Amendment in House Appropriations Subcommittee

CONAWAY/CONNERS: FOURTH OF JULY NO TIME
TO FIRE GUNS IN CELEBRATION
Assemblymen Renew Call for Criminalizing Reckless Celebratory Gunfire,
Remind Residents 'What Goes Up, Must Come Down'

(TRENTON) - Citing the inherent dangers of people engaging in celebratory gun play on the Fourth of July, Assemblymen Herb Conaway, M.D., and Jack Conners today renewed their call for a state law to crack down on the dangerous practice.

GUSCIORA: FOILED FORT DIX PLOT UNDERSCORES URGENCY
FOR ENACTING .50 CALIBER GUN BAN

(TRENTON) - Assemblyman Reed Gusciora today said the foiled plot by six men who allegedly planned to kill military personnel stationed at Fort Dix underscores all the more why New Jersey should outlaw civilian ownership of .50 caliber firearms.

GUSCIORA/PANTER INTRODUCE BILL TO BAN MILITARY-STYLE .50-CALIBER GUNS

Potentially Destructive Military-Grade Weapons Pose Security Threat to NJ

(TRENTON) - Assemblymen Reed Gusciora and Mike Panter recently introduced legislation to ban the sale of .50-caliber rifles - powerful battlefield-styled weapons that can fire large armor-piercing rounds with enough power to knock down a helicopter.