Chris Christie Just Vetoed Another Overreaching Gun Bill in New Jersey

By Published on November 12, 2015

While everyone is reading the usual presidential politics into the move, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has vetoed yet another gun control bill coming out of the Democrat held legislature in his home state. With a pointed signing statement indicating how the legislature could work with him to solve actual problems related to the subject, he shot down a bill which would have immediately banned gun ownership for not only those convicted of domestic abuse, but anyone who even had a restraining order filed against them.

Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey conditionally vetoed a bill on Nov. 9 which would have banned those convicted of domestic violence and individuals subject to a domestic violence restraining order from owning a gun.

In his rejection message, Christie suggested harsher penalties for perpetrators of domestic violence and making it easier for victims to buy guns.

β€œWe should favor new and sensible improvements to our laws rather than restatements of existing protections,” Christie wrote, according to NJ.com.

Lawmakers who supported the bill were stunned by the veto.

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