Gov. Malloy Sees Potential Loopholes In State Assault Weapons Bans. Wants tougher fed. laws

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) said that the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was carried out with an assault weapon despite the state's "aggressive" gun laws, during an interview that aired on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. Malloy argued that manufacturers could potentially get around state assault weapon laws because of an absence of federal legislation.

"Connecticut has a pretty aggressive law -- probably of the 50 states I think we're ranked 4th most aggressive in trying to limit access to these kinds of weapons," Malloy said. "But what happens in the absence of a Brady bill, in the absence of federal legislation, people use descriptive terms to try to get around the limitations that are built into our statutes here in Connecticut, or might otherwise not happen if we had federal legislation on this issue. These are assault weapons. You don't hunt deer with these things."

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Connecticut governor wants tougher federal laws
Two days after telling more than 20 families they had lost loved ones in one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy on Sunday urged stricter gun control legislation at the federal level.

"These are assault weapons. You don't hunt deer with these things," Malloy said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I think that's the question that a lot of people are going to have to resolve in their own minds: Where should this line get drawn?"

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The Democratic governor pointed to Connecticut's assault weapons ban but argued the lack of a similar law at the federal level makes it difficult to keep such weapons out of the state. He said manufacturers can use "descriptive terms to try to get around the limitations that are built into our statutes here in Connecticut" and added that many guns found in the state had been tracked from gun shows in other parts of the country.

"One can only hope that we'll find a way to limit these weapons that really only have one purpose," he told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.

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