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  2. Gun laws in Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Gun laws in Connecticut are amongst the most restrictive in the country. Connecticut requires training, background check and permitting requirements for the purchase of firearms and ammunition; and a ban (with exceptions) on certain semi-automatic firearms defined as "assault weapons" and magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds. Connecticut ...

  3. Assault weapons legislation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In January 1989, 34 children and a teacher were shot in Stockton California.The gunman used a semi automatic AK-47 firearm; five children perished. [10] [11] [12]: 10 President George H.W. Bush banned all imports of semi automatic rifles in March 1989, [13] and made the ban permanent in July 1989. [14]

  4. Gun laws in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    Semi-automatic rifles: No* No* DRMC § 38-130: No state law prohibiting sale or possession of Semi-automatic firearms, but with the repeal of Colorado's statewide firearm preemption law in 2021, local restrictions or prohibitions on semi-automatic may exist. Denver ordinance bans "assault weapons" (Most semi-auto rifles with more than 21 round ...

  5. Semi-automatic firearm - Wikipedia

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    The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...

  6. Appeals court to trigger injunction against IL’s gun ban, or ...

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    A challenge to Maryland's gun ban on final judgement is up for consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. That case is on final judgement out of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

  7. Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia

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    The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as ...

  8. Firearms are being turned into machine guns by criminals in ...

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    Jul. 28—Small, inexpensive devices that turn semiautomatic guns into fully automatic weapons are showing up in the Dayton region, and authorities warn they pose a significant threat to public ...

  9. Groups react to appeals court keeping IL’s gun ban in place ...

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    (The Center Square) – Gun rights advocates aren’t surprised the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a stay on a district judge’s ruling that the Illinois gun ban was unconstitutional.