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Monday, March 18, 2013

Sandy Hook Panel Urges Broader Gun Controls

By Mark Pazniokas

www.ctmirror.org

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission ignored the politics cramping gun-control legislation now under negotiation and issued an interim report today recommending broad restrictions on the sale and possession of semiautomatic firearms and ammunition in Connecticut.

The independent panel appointed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy after the shooting deaths of 26 children and women at Sandy Hook Elementary eschewed references to “assault weapons” and urged a ban on the possession of any firearm capable of firing more than 10 rounds without reloading.

In an implicit rebuke to previous assault weapon bans and current negotiations that focus on military features, the commission said those bills forced cosmetic changes to firearms without reducing their “lethality,” which the panel closely links to high-capacity magazines.

“It is the consensus of the Commission that firearm lethality is correlated to capacity, a correlation borne out not only in Sandy Hook Elementary School, but in other violent confrontations in and beyond Connecticut,” the panel wrote.

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