Newtown Chief Calls for Assault Weapons Ban

Top police commanders from several of Connecticut’s cities and towns have thrown their weight behind Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe, who inserted himself firmly into the gun-control debate last week by calling for a ban on assault weapons.

Kehoe was thrust into the spotlight following the events of Dec. 14, when a gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.

Read the full Danbury News-Times story.

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