Since the Dec. 12, 2012, massacre of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the state has passed several laws to restrict and make it more challenging to own and use a firearm.
Connecticut has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation.
On Jan. 26, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont—who has made gun control a priority and been out front on the issue—held a news conference at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford where he announced the second of three sets of gun-control proposals he will introduce this year.
Gun control items that Lamont presented at the conference are focused on preventing mass shootings and feature, as detailed in a statement the governor’s office issued, eliminating “loopholes in the state’s assault weapons ban,” making more severe the “penalties related to the state’s ban on large capacity magazines,” and raising the minimum age to purchase any firearm to 21….