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The bill’s chief sponsor, House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear, described the bill as a preventative measure.
“I think this is just another avenue for illegal guns to be on our streets and be in the hands of the wrong people,” she said, referring to homemade guns.
“I think you’re not seeing a lot of ghost guns now, but they’re starting to become more and more out on the streets,” Longhurst added.
In response to a question from Rep. Tim Dukes, R-Laurel, Longhurst could not say whether anyone in Delaware has been killed with a ghost gun, but that state police have reported confiscating about 60 homemade guns since 2019.
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Small landowners near the new airport in western Sydney who will be forced to sell their homes to make way for an $11 billion rail line say the state government has failed to justify the scale of compulsory acquisitions planned for the construction of a train station.
They are also upset about a process that led some of them to believe the line would not impact their homes, only to later be told their entire properties would be snapped up for the project.
Orchard Hills residents Christine and Jason Vella will be forced to sell their home of almost 12 years.
“A single trial court judge has unilaterally thwarted public efforts to avert that looming catastrophe, by issuing an injunction that allows all restaurants in San Diego County to reopen without any restriction, contrary to the orders and judgment of the State’s top health officials,” the state argues.
The appellate court’s stay did not offer an explanation, but required the opposition to respond by this coming Wednesday.
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Jason Saccuzzo, a lawyer for Pacers, told the Associated Press that the clubs will ask the court to reconsider the stay. He said they would keep fighting the “illogical and unconstitutional orders.”