Governor Murphy Promises to Make it Even Harder to Own Guns in NJ

At a roundtable event surrounded by gun safety advocates, Gov. Murphy doubled down on his campaign promises to sign every piece of gun legislation that former Gov. Chris Christie vetoed and to strengthen gun control.

Seated next to Assembly Majority Leader Louis D. Greenwald (D., Camden), a major proponent of gun safety bills rejected by Christie, Murphy spoke of introducing “commonsense laws that respect the Second Amendment.”

“There’s a myth out there that if you strengthen gun safety laws, you somehow chip away at the Second Amendment,” Murphy said at the panel discussion Tuesday in Cherry Hill at the Katz Jewish Community Center. “I don’t believe that — you don’t believe that.”