New Hampshire Firearms Coalition: “Anti-Gun Chris Christie”

by
Steve MacDonald

Chris Christie

The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition has a piece dated today explaining why Governors Chris Christie and JohnKassich are anti-gun. This has been emailed to everyone on their mailing list but if you are not on the list I’ve excerpted some of it here and linked to the article.

Governor Chris Christie, (R-NJ)

Since he became a presidential candidate, Governor Christie has been bragging about all of the people who were convicted of crimes under New Jersey’s draconian gun laws that he has subsequently pardoned.

Don’t be fooled!  This is not the pro-gun act that Gov. Christie wants you to think it is.

First, to our knowledge, Gov. Christie has only pardoned one New Jersey resident. It seems that visitors to the state who are ensnared by New Jersey’s anti-gun laws are more likely to get “excused”.  And then, only after a huge public outcry. For example, Shaneen Allen, is a nurse, single mother and of course a female. When the outcry was loud Christie pardoned her.  But the funny thing is that Gov. Christie has opposed nationwide concealed carry recognition.  That’s right, had congress passed the very bill that Christie opposes, Shaneen Allen would not have gone to jail and a pardon would not have been necessary.

Fox News’ Bret Baeir asked him about this quote from 1993:
“The issue which has motivated me to get into this race is the recent attempt by certain Republican legislators to repeal New Jersey’s ban on assault weapons,” Christie said at the time.

The full Christie quote, not shown by Fox News, goes even further:
“In today’s society, no one needs a semiautomatic assault weapon,” he said. “We already have too many firearms in our communities.”

Now to be fair, 1993 was 22 years ago.  However, we cannot find a single pro-gun action by Gov. Christie in the following 22 years.  Gov. Christie appears to be a committed anti-gun activist.

The Wall Street Journal reported that:
“Mr. Christie has previously stated that he supports “strictly enforcing” New Jersey’s existing gun-control laws, which are some of the strongest in the U.S. He has vetoed some bills that would provide additional restrictions, such as reducing gun magazine capacity.”

Read the entire article here, including the section on Gov. Kasich.

 

 

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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