LOADING ERROR LOADINGHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s most wide-ranging gun control measure since the 2013 law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting takes effect Sunday, with proponents vowing to pursue more gun legislation despite legal challenges happening across the country. Connecticut’s landmark 2013 gun law, passed in response to the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown that claimed 26 lives, is also being contested in court. This December 14 marks the 10th anniversary of the Dec. 14, 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary where 26 people were shot and killed, including twenty 6 and 7-year-olds and six adults. It was the deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S. history. She said there were already state laws on the books that address people illegally carrying a weapon in public or abusing the open carry law.

Source: Huffington Post October 02, 2023 12:22 UTC