People, we are dealing with an endless avalanche of gun control measures. Here’s today’s:
Proposed H.B. No. 5561 REP. TONG, 147th DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR THE STATE-WIDE FIREARMS TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE’, to fully fund the state-wide firearms trafficking task force to improve its ability to enforce Connecticut gun trafficking laws.
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Proposed H.B. No. 5647 REP. MUSHINSKY, 85th DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING HIGH CAPACITY FIREARMS’, to protect public safety by reducing the number of high capacity firearms in circulation.
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Proposed H.B. No. 5651 REP. HWANG, 134th DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OR POSSESSION OF AMMUNITION’, to prohibit persons barred from purchasing or possessing a firearm from purchasing or possessing ammunition.
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Proposed H.B. No. 5654 REP. O’NEILL, 69th DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING HOUSEHOLD ACCESS TO FIREARMS BY A PERSON WHO POSES A RISK OF IMMINENT PERSONAL INJURY TO HIMSELF OR OTHERS’, to enhance public safety by expanding the current mechanism for permitting formal complaints regarding a person who poses a risk of imminent harm when such person possesses a firearm to allow complaints regarding any such person when such person has access to a firearm within such person’s household.
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Proposed H.B. No. 5656 REP. MIKUTEL, 45th DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME COMMITTED WITH A FIREARM’, to increase the mandatory minimum prison sentence for any person who, in the commission of a crime, uses, threatens to use, displays or purports to have a firearm.
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Proposed H.B. No. 5676 REP. CAFERO, 142nd DIST.; REP. CANDELORA, 86th DIST.; REP. KLARIDES, 114th DIST. ‘AN ACT INCREASING THE MINIMUM PENALTY FOR ILLEGALLY SELLING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM’, to increase the minimum penalties for illegally selling or possessing a firearm.
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Proposed S.B. No. 501 SEN. AYALA, 23rd DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING THE BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS’, to protect the public from gun violence by updating the assault weapon ban.
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Proposed S.B. No. 504 SEN. AYALA, 23rd DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING LARGE CAPACITY GUN MAGAZINES’, to limit the number of bullets one gun magazine may hold.
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Proposed S.B. No. 506 SEN. FRANTZ, 36th DIST. ‘AN ACT REQUIRING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR ALL PRIVATE FIREARM SALES’, to require criminal background checks of all purchasers of firearms at private gun sales.
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Proposed S.B. No. 277 SEN. KISSEL, 7th DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICIES REGARDING THE CARRYING OF FIREARMS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS’, to allow local and regional boards of education to develop policies regarding the carrying of firearms on school grounds.
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Proposed S.B. No. 307 SEN. GUGLIELMO, 35th DIST. ‘AN ACT PROVIDING FUNDING FOR THE STATE-WIDE FIREARMS TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE’, to fund the state-wide firearms trafficking task force.
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Proposed S.B. No. 495 SEN. BARTOLOMEO, 13th DIST.; REP. ABERCROMBIE, 83rd DIST.; REP. ALTOBELLO, 82nd DIST.; REP. FAWCETT, 133rd DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING COMMISSION OF CERTAIN FELONIES WITH A FIREARM OR ASSAULT WEAPON’, to increase the penalty for the commission of a class A, B or C felony with a firearm or assault weapon.
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Proposed S.B. No. 496 SEN. KISSEL, 7th DIST. ‘AN ACT PROHIBITING THE AWARD OF RISK REDUCTION CREDIT TOWARD A REDUCTION IN SENTENCE FOR A CRIME COMMITTED WITH A FIREARM’, to prohibit any person sentenced for a crime that involved the use of a firearm from earning risk reduction credit toward a reduction in such person’s sentence.
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Proposed S.B. No. 505 SEN. AYALA, 23rd DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT TO PURCHASE A RIFLE’, to clarify that an individual must be twenty-one years of age or older in order to purchase a rifle.
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Proposed S.B. No. 377 SEN. LOONEY, 11th DIST. ‘AN ACT CONCERNING THE SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF PISTOL PERMITS’, to increase public safety by suspending or revoking the pistol permit of permit holders charged with drunken driving.
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