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New Jersey to vote on override of Christie gun control bill veto
Source: Reuters
Politics | Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:07pm EDT
New Jersey to vote on override of Christie gun control bill veto
NEW YORK | BY KATIE REILLY
The New Jersey Senate will vote on Thursday whether to override Governor Chris Christie's veto of a bill that requires courts and law enforcement to exchange information before people trying to purchase a firearm can have their medical records expunged.
Christie, who is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, rejected the bill in August after it passed unanimously in both the state Senate and Assembly.
The vote comes after several recent mass shootings, including one at a community college in Oregon that left 10 dead this month. The massacres fueled a national debate over keeping guns away from people with a history of mental illness.
"I cannot endorse a continued path of patchwork proposals and fragmented statutes that add further confusion to an already cumbersome area of law," Christie wrote in his conditional veto.
The bill goes further than previous state legislation by requiring notification of local law enforcement prior to expunging the mental health records of people who want to purchase firearms.
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New Jersey to vote on override of Christie gun control bill veto
NEW YORK | BY KATIE REILLY
The New Jersey Senate will vote on Thursday whether to override Governor Chris Christie's veto of a bill that requires courts and law enforcement to exchange information before people trying to purchase a firearm can have their medical records expunged.
Christie, who is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, rejected the bill in August after it passed unanimously in both the state Senate and Assembly.
The vote comes after several recent mass shootings, including one at a community college in Oregon that left 10 dead this month. The massacres fueled a national debate over keeping guns away from people with a history of mental illness.
"I cannot endorse a continued path of patchwork proposals and fragmented statutes that add further confusion to an already cumbersome area of law," Christie wrote in his conditional veto.
The bill goes further than previous state legislation by requiring notification of local law enforcement prior to expunging the mental health records of people who want to purchase firearms.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-new-jersey-guncontrol-idUSKCN0SG2E020151022