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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

NJ Mayors Group: Enough Is Enough on Illegal Guns

Mayors Against Illegal Guns gathered for a press conference Monday morning to tell legislators, enough is enough

From Vermont to New Mexico, members of the 800-strong Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition of elected officials gathered to voice their frustration to Washington and push legislators to support laws that ban violent assault weapons, makes gun trafficking a federal crime and increases the background checks on potential gun owners. "It has nothing to do with the Second Amendment, it's about gun violence," said former N.J. Gov. Jim Florio, who joined the group of local legislative leaders and law enforcement officials. Florio took much of the credit for getting tough with N.J. gun laws in the 1990s.  "We formulated this issue in terms of whether the people in the state thought it was in the public interest to have more access to Uzi's and AK…

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