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DO WE NEED
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June 12, 2016

A look at the five most recent mass

shootings in which more than 10
people were killed, with location
and type of weapon used.

Orlando nightclub
massacre
Rifle: Sig Sauer MCX
Orlando, Florida

49 fatalities

Should N.J.
nix estate tax
in trade for
gas tax hike?
MIKE DAVIS @BYMIKEDAVIS

TRENTON Its on the mind of each of Jack Oujos

clients: How do I get around New Jerseys estate taxes?
The tax, paid by inheritors on an estate valued at
more than $675,000, has been cited by legislators and
tax advocates as a driver thats pushing people out of
the state. And its easily avoided by buying a condo in
tax-friendly Florida and moving there for exactly six
months and one day.
Id never encourage a client to move to save on taxes, but a lot of clients feel like theyre being asked to
leave the state when they reach a certain point in time,
said Oujo, an accountant and financial adviser based in
Wall. Its idiotic for New Jersey. Its stupid.
Its the last week of the fiscal year, and state lawmakers are scrambling to pass dozens of bills, including a
$34.8 billion budget and a proposed minimum wage
hike. But none is more of a sticking point than the historic tax realignment proposed by Sens. Paul Sarlo, DBergen, and Steve Oroho, R-Sussex, notably including a
four-year phaseout of the estate tax.
See TAXES, Page 10A

Dec. 2, 2015
San Bernardino mass shooting
Rifles: DPMS A-15
and M&P 15
San Bernardino, California

14 fatalities

July 20, 2012

Aurora theater shooting
Rifle: Smith & Wesson
M&P 15 semiautomatic rifle
Aurora, Colorado

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12 fatalities

Dec. 14, 2012

Christine Barry, a Ph.D. student at Montclair State University,

holds a jar of clinging jellyfish in Monmouth Beach Tuesday.

Newtown school shooting

Rifle: .223 Bushmaster XM15E2S semiautomatic rifle
Newtown, Connecticut

28 fatalities
Sept. 16, 2013
Washington Navy Yard shooting
Rifle: Sawed-off shotgun
Washington, D.C.

12 fatalities
KEN SERRANO @KENSERRANOAPP

No one can legally possess a firearm in New Jersey like the Sig Sauer MCX that killer Omar Mateen
used to gun down 49 people in Orlando.
Gun laws in New Jersey are among the tightest in
the nation, gun deaths are low, and high-profile mass
shootings have been virtually nonexistent.
Dozens of other states allow what gun control advocates call military-style assault weapons and Second Amendment advocates call sporting rifles.
Do we really need the rapid-fire semiautomatic ri-

fles originally designed for the battlefield?

Or should the federal government revisit a ban on
those guns that expired in 2004, enacting a ban like
the one in New Jersey? Will banning semiautomatic
rifles reduce mass shootings?
Major gun law reforms in Australia enacted 20
years ago have eliminated fatal mass shootings
there, according to a study published Wednesday in
the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Banning rapid-fire long rifles was among the
See GUNS, Page 5A

Christie returns to town halls to promote funding formula. 3A

First hit by Sandy, then by the state

JERRY CARINO CARINOS CORNER the money, the state demanded it back. The reason:
After her Lacey home got pummeled by superstorm Sandy, Laurie
Fox received two relief grants totaling
nearly $14,000 from New Jerseys Department of Community Affairs.
Her nightmare finally seemed to be
ending.
In fact, it was just beginning.
In 2015, two years after awarding

Iraqi troops win back city of

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She failed to prove it was her primary address.

So Fox gathered documentation, including four
years worth of homestead rebates and notarized affidavits from several neighbors, but an administrative judge ruled against her earlier this month. Now
shes been devastated twice: first by Sandy, then by
the system.
The whole thing is just sick, Fox said. You wonSee CARINO, Page 6A

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SINCE 1879

Clinging jellyfish:
New problem with
no easy answers
RUSS ZIMMER @RUSSZIMMER

As the old saying goes: To fix any problem, you must

first understand it.
To that end, state officials have announced plans to
study the clinging jellyfish, the tiny invertebrate with a
powerful sting that has invaded the Shrewsbury River
and possibly the Navesink River and Barnegat Bay as
well.
The clinging jellyfish is a species that is new to the
Shores rivers and bays. Its arrival is being met with
unease by residents and scientists.
A 20-year-old Middletown man was stung on his side
while swimming in the Shrewsbury River in Oceanport
two weeks ago. He ended up in the hospital for nearly
three days, telling the Asbury Park Press that a morphine injection really only took the edge off.
Most sightings of the clinging jellyfish have been in
the Shrewsbury, but the initial specimen was fished out
See STUDY, Page 7A