(Source: Reuters – By Scott Malone) Connecticut to ban gun sales to people on watch lists: governor
Connecticut would become the first U.S. state to ban the sale of guns to people on government watch lists under an executive order that Governor Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, said on Thursday he will sign. The measure, which Malloy said needs federal approval, would require state police to review whether a potential gun buyer was on the federal no-fly list or on a watchlist for people suspected of ties to terrorism. It would also revoke existing gun permits issued to people whose names were found on such a list.
The move follows a call by President Barack Obama for Congress to prohibit people on the no-fly list from purchasing firearms in the wake of the last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, California, of 14 people by a married couple inspired by Islamic State militants. (…)
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Connecticut is taking steps to block people who are banned from flying on commercial airliners from obtaining firearms permits, the state’s Democratic governor, Dannel Malloy said on Thursday. « If you cannot fly due to being on a watch list, you shouldn’t be able to purchase a firearm, » Malloy said. « Since Congress so far as failed to act, we well. »
Malloy’s move comes a week after a married couple inspired by Islamic State militants shot dead 14 people in California in the deadliest mass shooting the United States has seen since a gunman killed 26 people including 20 young children at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. (…)
