NJ Governor Wants “Smart Guns” To Be The Only Guns For Sale

By Cam Edwards

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is already one of the most unpopular governors in the country, and his latest comments about “smart guns” aren’t going to help his approval rating. While appearing on a local “Ask The Governor” TV program, Murphy was asked if he’d like to see a day when only “smart guns” are available for sale in the state.

It’s “too early to tell” if New Jersey will limit firearms sales in the state to only include so-called smart guns, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday.

But if it was up to him, smart guns would be the only type of guns people here would be able to purchase.

“Yes. I hope it does get to that,” Murphy said during his monthly “Ask the Governor” program hosted by News 12 New Jersey.

Murphy recently signed a new version of New Jersey’s smart gun law, first passed in 2002, which mandates that once a smart gun becomes commercially available, gun stores in the state must stock the firearm and make it available for sale. Under the original law, after a so-called smart gun became available for sale, firearms retailers in the state had a three year grace period …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms