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U.S. NEWS Monday 16 deceMber 2019

Shooting shows New Jersey’s

gun laws aren’t stopping imports

By MIKE CATALINI from the muzzles of guns eral politicians. “I can’t put
Associated Press sold in states with less-strin- borders up in a neighboring
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Offi- gent laws. state where you can buy
cials from states with strong Officials there and else- this damn stuff legally.”
gun restrictions have called where have renewed de- Federal legislation is the
for stricter firearm control in mands for gun control at missing factor, agreed Mur-
places with weaker laws to the federal level. phy’s top gun adviser.
thwart traffickers, but the “It keeps happening, over “If we’re being honest,
fatal attack on a Jewish and over and over again, New Jersey is not an oasis In this Dec. 10, 2019 photo, Jersey City police Sgt. Marjorie
market in New Jersey shows on their damn watch,” and that’s why it’s extraor- Jordan, right, helps fellow officer Raymond Sanchez to safety
how fruitless those efforts California Democratic Gov. dinarily frustrating,” said Bill after he was shot during a gunfight that left multiple dead in
can be. Gavin Newsom said of fed- Castner.q Jersey City, N.J.
Three civilians and a police Associated Press
officer were gunned down
Tuesday by two killers with
anti-Semitic and anti-law
enforcement beliefs, the
state’s attorney general
said.
The attackers carried
five firearms and a pipe
bomb in the U-Haul van
they drove to the Jersey
City Jewish market before
opening fire, officials said.
Two of the weapons used
by David Anderson, 47, and
Francine Graham, 50, were
bought by Graham in Ohio
last year, police said. It’s un-
known where they got the
three other guns.
New Jersey is among the
states with the toughest gun
restrictions in the country,
and in the past two years,
Democratic Gov. Phil Mur-
phy has signed over a half-
dozen new restrictions into
law, including a lower bullet
limit for gun magazines and
a red flag law.
He’s also made a priority of
highlighting the so-called
iron pipeline of firearms
from other states — par-
ticularly along the Inter-
state 95 corridor. Murphy,
for example, is requiring
state police to publish data
monthly on guns recovered
from crimes. The data shows
nearly 80% of so-called
crime guns are from out of
state.
Murphy says it’s important to
“name and shame” states
with weaker gun laws that
effectively import weapons
into New Jersey. And in Cal-
ifornia, its Democratic gov-
ernor and attorney general
this year both criticized the
continued ability to bring in
illegal firearms from other
states despite California’s
strict gun laws.
For years, Chicago officials
have complained that
street violence often comes