NJ Governor Attacks Legal Gun Owners With Batch Of New Bills – Pushing For More

By Cody McLaughlin

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on Tuesday, July 16 signed a whole slew of new gun regulations.

The four bills, designed explicitly to discourage a sporting lifestyle and make gun ownership more onerous, expensive and personally liable in the state cover everything from establishing a “commission” to setting regulations on so-called “smart guns” requiring all retailers to sell at least one model, once available.

When asked about the “suicide prevention” bill affecting gun range owners in the state (A3896), Anthony Colandro, owner of Gun For Hire at the Woodland Park Range and newly elected NRA Board Member told Bearing Arms, “At Gun For Hire we have been taking mental health first aid seriously since we started. We sponsored the mental health certification for the Town of Woodland Park (where we are located). All of my staff gets mental health training and suicide prevention training by the American Society for Suicide Prevention, and we keep brochures on hand for prevention. We have been doing this since day 1 and all this bill does is “encourage” gun range owners to take the courses – it doesn’t make it mandatory. We have been doing it for five years already …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms