The North Carolina state legislature voted successfully on Wednesday to override Governor Cooper’s veto of a new state law that will roll back a Jim Crow-era gun law conservatives have branded as racist.

Under longstanding North Carolina law, a firearms permit applicant must go through both federal and county-level background checks, giving local sheriff’s departments the ability to deny permit applications arbitrarily. Both Republicans and Democrats have said it is an infringement on citizens’ Second Amendment rights. When the bill repealing county background checks originally passed in February, three Democrats voted for the measure.