With the ink barely dry on Connecticut’s new gun law, several gun rights groups have announced plans explore legal challenges to the new restrictions, CT News Junkie reported Thursday.
Flanked by families of some of those murdered at a Newtown elementary school in December, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law the state’s bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation at ceremony Thursday afternoon in the state Capitol.
The bill, which the General Assembly passed early that morning after more than 13 hours of debate, expands the number of firearms prohibited in Connecticut, bans the sale of ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 rounds, and imposes new eligibility requirements for the purchases of all guns and ammunition. It also creates the first statewide gun offender registry.
