Politics & Government

National Shooting Sports Files Suit On CT Gun Laws

Written by Aaron Boyd

Two months after Gov. Dannel Malloy signed some of the country’s strictest gun control legislation into law, the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has filed a lawsuit contesting the process.

According to a post on the Hartford Courant’s website, NSSF Senior Vice President and legal counsel Lawrence Keane, the legislative process that led to the bill “is in violation of guarantees citizens are supposed to have under Connecticut state statutes and protections in our state and U.S. Constitution.”

Read more of Keane’s comments and view a copy of the lawsuit on Courant.com.


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