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This resolution memorializes Congress and the President of the United States to take several significant gun control actions, highlighting the urgent need to address firearm violence. Specifically, it calls for requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales (including those at gun shows), reinstating and strengthening the assault weapons ban, and establishing a federal gun buy-back program to reduce the number of assault firearms in circulation. The resolution emphasizes the severity of gun violence in the United States, noting that more Americans have been killed by guns since 1968 than in all U.S. wars combined, and that gun violence costs an estimated $229 billion annually. Additionally, it seeks to repeal the Dickey Amendment, which has historically prevented the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from conducting comprehensive research on firearm violence, and calls for full funding of CDC research on this public health issue. The resolution draws on New Jersey's own stringent gun control measures as an example for national policy, reflecting a broader concern about the widespread and devastating impact of gun-related deaths across various public spaces like schools, workplaces, and places of worship.

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https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/ACR66