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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
after the sandy hook massacre in connecticut, new york passed a sensible gun controlled bill called the safe act which has the model reforms that we ve been looking for. connecticut has good laws, rhode island has good laws, new jersey has good laws. the problem is, you re limited by your own borders. so i can enforce those laws and i have that data in my state but if somebody drives across the border and goes to connecticut to buy a gun, they don t 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, we have databases on protective orders, we have databases on warrants for arrest, all of which would stop a purchaser in the state of new york. share those databases with the
different members to say what s happening to them. what s really happening out there. and one member of congress referred to the amount of money at stake here as budget dust. it s such a small amount of money. the program, family violence prevention services act program that funds the core services for most of the shelters in the country is authorized at $175 million. it s being funded now at $121 million and even that s being cut. the difference, 50 million lives. many lives. lives of our neighbors, our friends and our family members. and 50 million in this budget is nothing. just seeing here that 88% of state coalitions concerned about this reported domestic violence programs have recently experienced an increase in demand for services. because the problem is getting bigger and the failure to meet it is getting bigger. thank you, kim gandy. please come back again.