connecticut to buy a gun, they don t have that information. so if the federal government won t act and you can t get a 50-state solution well, then get what you can. and start with state coalitions and that s exactly what we re doing now we have databases on mental health, on protective orders. we have databases on warrants for arrests, all of which would stop a purchaser in the state of new york. share those databases with the other states, so you re take wack are good laws and you are now expanding the foot print of that to a northeast coalition. what do you expect to be the financial implications of this pact among these four states? do you expect you will need a lot of new funding to be approved by the legislature, for example, in your is that it to get this going? money is tight especially after what the federal
announcing their own regional coalition against gun violence. governors of new york, new jersey, connecticut and rhode island say they are forming a regional effort, joining up to strengthen background checks to share information about people banned from buying guns into each of these states, to create a multi-task force to intercept illegal guns across the region. they say they plan to collaborate on new gun violence research. gun violence research has been banned by congress at the federal level for over 20 years. well, northeastern governors say if the federal government won t do it, the northeast will. they plan to share their findings nation i nationwide. a lot of eyes will be on florida tomorrow to see what republicans there will come up with regard to a gun reform package. we are about to find out if a group of states can do something constructive on their own terms on a big if you have scale it can make a difference for a whole region of the country, even if we are still stuck