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Alongside family members of some ofthe victims ofthe shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Malloy signed thebill hours after the General Assembly approved the measure to give the state some ofthe toughest gun laws in the country.
Robert Crook, executive director ofthe Connecticut Coalition of Sportsmen, contended thebill would not have changed what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where gunman Adam Lanza fired off 154 shots with a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle within five minutes.