Burlington city leaders pushing for gun reform legislation after Church Street shooting [Video]

The accused shooter in the deadly shooting outside Red Square bar on Church Street in Burlington two weeks ago will appear back in court on Friday.Aaliyah Johnson, 22, pled not guilty last week to first-degree murder in the shooting death of Teville Williams.The recent string of violent crimes committed in the Queen City has Burlington city leaders pushing for new gun reform legislation. “We really need more common sense gun laws,” said Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, at a press conference back on Aug. 26. “While this may not have prevented this necessarily, it is certainly much overdue and needed policy on a statewide level.”Mulvaney-Stanak has been calling on the state legislature to approve a charter change resolution passed in 2014.It would ban firearms from businesses with liquor licenses.Franklin County state Rep. Mike McCarthy is also the chair of the House Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs.They have control over whether …