Conn. House passes machine gun ban for children
Published: May 15, 2009
Updated: May 15, 2009
HARTFORD, Conn.—The Connecticut House of Representatives has given final legislative approval to a bill that bars anyone from providing a child under 16 with a machine gun, including for target practice.
The bill passed the House 139-0. It already passed the Senate and awaits Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s signature.
The legislation stems from the October death of an 8-year-old Ashford boy who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi at a Massachusetts gun show.
Supporters of the bill, including some gun rights advocates, said they hope the legislation will prevent future tragedies.
Three men, including a Massachusetts police chief whose business promoted the gun show, and two men who brought the Uzi, have been charged in Massachusetts with involuntary manslaughter.
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There are so many laws now that prohibit doing or using things that are dangerous that it’s pathetic. Most normal people have the common sense not to do those things anyway.
Just more laws to further overburden and already overburdened court system—and then those same fools that insist on those idiotic laws complain loud and long that the justice system doesn’t work.
Go figure…....
we will all soon need machine guns to protect ourselves from crazy legislators.
Bob Cumberland
I suppose that if children are being given access to machine guns (can you believe this?) then we must make a law to protect both the children and the public from the possible consequences of uzi-toting adolescents. The same should hold true for adults.
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