Residents of South Jersey\’s 4th Legislative District should be aware of Democratic state Sen. Fred Madden\’s recent flip-flopping on S1774. He has shown that he does not stand behind his convictions and will buckle under pressure.
S1774 arbitrarily limits firearm purchases to one per month despite the fact that gun buyers are already vetted by police for every permit. The bill was a symbolic, meaningless gesture to attack the nonexistent problem of intrastate handgun trafficking. It stalled in the Senate in February, one vote shy of passage, when Sens. Madden, Jeff Van Drew and Stephen Sweeney were the only Democrats with the common sense to staunchly oppose a bill whose only use was to score cheap political points.
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