US Judge Upholds Connecticut Gun Control Law

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"A federal judge upheld Connecticut's gun control law on Thursday, saying the sweeping measure is constitutional even as he acknowledged the Second Amendment rights of gun owners who sued to block it.

The law, which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed last April after months of negotiations in the legislature, was not entirely written "with the utmost clarity," U.S. District Judge Alfred Covello said in his 47-page decision. Still, several provisions are "not impermissibly vague in all of their applications and, therefore, the challenged portions of the legislation are not unconstitutionally vague."

Lawmakers, responding to the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six educators on Dec. 14, 2012, banned the sale of large-capacity magazines and made more weapons illegal under the state's assault weapons ban."

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"The law does not prohibit possession of handguns, the "quintessential self-defense weapon" cited in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2008 landmark decision striking down Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns, he said. The prohibition of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines "does not effectively disarm individuals or substantially affect their ability to defend themselves," Covello said."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-judge-upholds-connecticut-gun-control-law-22305314

Sensible gun control laws withstand attacks by Second Amendment Absolutists and their gun nut followers.

[Thinkingabout]

1. Good ruling.

[CTyankee]

2. I'm thrilled! It doesn't make up for the horrendous loss of life in our state with Newtown but

at least WE are trying here in CT. Maybe we were just too smug and self confident that "it can't happen here." But it did and to our eternal shame. At least we have done something about it. It won't bring those children back but it will save other children...