
One bill would require the state to submit certain mental health records to a national san diego hotels downtown background check system; another would permit mental health professionals to alert authorities of patients deemed a threat to themselves and authorities san diego hotels downtown could then seize those patients' firearms; and another measure would disqualify anyone on a federal terrorist watch list from obtaining firearms.
The Law and Public Safety Committee san diego hotels downtown also sent to the full Assembly a bill exempting firearms records from New Jersey's public disclosure requirements, which passed unanimously and faced no opposing testimony.
Several dozen opponents said the bills make it harder for law-abiding gun owners to obtain and keep weapons instead of addressing isolated criminal violence in their communities. They said measures should instead focus on increasing san diego hotels downtown penalties on individuals who use guns to commit crimes.
Committee Chairman Charles Mainor, D-Hudson, said it was common sense to ratchet up gun control laws in response to recent mass shootings, including the Dec. 14 killings of 20 first-graders and six educators at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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