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Malloy Willing to Risk Gun Jobs for Inevitable Gun Ban

By Mark Pazniokas

www.ctmirror.org

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who has made the creation and retention of manufacturing jobs an administration priority, left no doubt today that he is willing to risk the loss of firearms jobs to win a stronger assault-weapon ban that he sees as inevitable.

“We don’t want to sell these weapons in our state, but they are legally manufactured. We welcome them to stay in the state, and that’s up to them,” Malloy said of the manufacturers. “But I think we are going to enact an assault weapons ban.”

Malloy spoke a day after three Connecticut manufacturers of AR-15s, the military-style rifle used to kill 26 children and women at Sandy Hook Elementary School, began airing commercials warning that a ban could cost hundreds of jobs.

He reached out two days ago in letters to the manufacturers, saying he hoped they stay, despite their differences.

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