TRENTON — After a day of meeting with gun control and gun rights advocates, state Senate Democrats are holding off on putting forward 12 new gun-control measures they had planned to introduce today.

Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) said lawmakers need to make technical changes to the legislation and may introduce the bills next Monday.

“We have, I think, a little more tweaking to do. It’s all part of the process, but I think it’s moving along comparatively smoothly,” Weinberg said.

Weinberg declined to go into details about the legislation, but said some issues arose involving laws that are already on the books and enforcement of some of the proposals. But she said the “centerpiece” legislation that would require instant background checks and outlines technology that would enable the state to do it remains the same.

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The Senate Democrats’ proposals — 12 in all — are less comprehensive than the 22 bills the Assembly passed in February. For instance, one key piece of the Assembly legislation – limiting the size of ammunition magazines from 15 to 10 – was not part of the Senate package.

Weinberg did not say whom she met with, but that they were both for and against new gun control measures.

“Am I saying that we’re going to get a lot of huge support for this from people who don’t want to see any regulation? No, I don’t think so,” Weinberg said. “But I think people felt like this was a fair process and everybody got their input.”

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Sweeney, for his part, said the delay has nothing to do with the fact that he's in a swing legislative district that contains rural areas.

"We're trying to accomplish something that's meaningful here, something that actually gets something done," he said.

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