Northeast governors announce gun control initiative
Source: Politico
Not counting on Washington to take action on gun laws, four Northeast Democratic governors on Thursday announced the formation of a state-based alliance to beef up gun controls. It's modeled on the Climate Alliance formed by Democratic governors after President Donald Trump announced he’d withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
Govs. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Andrew Cuomo of New York, Dan Malloy of Connecticut and Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island said the initiative would share information on top of what’s in the federal background-check system, trace guns across state lines and create a regional consortium to share policy studies being done at universities and elsewhere.
In an interview earlier this week for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast, Murphy had teased that this group was coming.
“This notion of a coalition of states, of like-minded states, that share best practices to me is a very smart interim step toward a national solution,” he said in the interview.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/22/democratic-governors-gun-control-alliance-421728
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