Connecticut Lawmakers Agree to Tighten Gun Controls
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Connecticut lawmakers agreed on a bipartisan measure that would ban sales of semiautomatic rifles like the one used in the Newtown school massacre and require background checks on buyers in all firearms transactions.
“In Connecticut we broke the mold,” said Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat, in a statehouse news briefing yesterday in Hartford, referring to the measure’s cross-party support. “That is a message that should resound in 49 other states and in Washington.”