On April 4, Gov. Dannel Malloy signed a package of new gun laws in response to the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

WSJ: Conn. Gun Fight Continues

Gun violence stepped onto center stage on Dec. 1, when Kansas City Chiefs Linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend, Kassandra Perkins, to death after returning home in a drunken stupor.

FORBES: Has Public Opinion Really Changed Regarding Gun Control?

The law pushed through by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan. 15 the first new gun restrictions in the nation following the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

WSJ: Gun rights group files federal suit against NY law

Nationally, gun sales have soared since the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings Dec. 14 that killed 20 children, six teachers and staff members, and the gunman's mother.

WSJ: Gun business soars after NY gun laws enacted

After just less than 10 hours of deliberations over three days, the jury of 10 women and two men sided with Mr. Pride and his lawyers, who maintained their client fired the gun accidentally while fleeing a basement apartment of a Cypress Hills home in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, 2011.

WSJ: Officer's Murder Accidental, Jury Finds