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America's Rifle: Rise Of The AR-15
The Hartford CourantWhen his son turned 14 a year ago, Jonathan Hardy bought the teen a gift that was both a coming-of-age badge and a hot item: an AR-15 rifle. To Hardy, the matte-black weapon is not a dangerous assault rifle. His son's model shoots the same small, low-...Tags: Arts and Culture, United Auto Workers, Politics, Startups, United Technologies Corporation
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Region's Firearm Factories Invested Heavily To Build AR-15
The Hartford CourantIt doesn't take long to see the effects of massive investment at the Connecticut factories that make the AR-15 military-style rifle. Deep in the heart of the sprawling Colt firearms plant in West Hartford, Bobby Craddock sets up rifle barrels in an...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sacred Heart University, Plant Openings, Politics, Samuel Colt
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As Weapons Ban Movement Grows, Some Perspective Is In Order
The Hartford CourantIf the reactions of the past three days hold up, we're likely to see some kind of ban on assault weapons or on the ammo magazines of the sort used by the Newtown shooter. That's good news for people who have been pushing for this since forever, many...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Justice and Rights
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High School Baseball Rosters For All-Star Games In Plainville
The Connecticut High School Coaches Association senior games on Tuesday will have Distict II-IV at 5 p.m. and District I-III at 7:30 at Plainville High. The title game will be Wednesday at 5. In the junior division, the gray-blue game is Wednesday at 7:...Tags: Darien (Fairfield, Connecticut), College Baseball, Canton (Hartford, Connecticut), New Canaan, Christianity
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Newtown Families Push For Secretly Negotiated Bill To Block Release Of Some Investigative Records
The Hartford CourantParents of Newtown massacre victims came to the state Capitol on Friday to urge passage of a secretly negotiated bill that would block the public disclosure of crime scene photos and audiotapes of police calls from the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Personal Data Collection, Adam Lanza, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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Secretly Drafted Bill Would Leave Release of Some Newtown Investigative Records Up To Families
The Hartford CourantA secretly drafted bill to block release of photos, tapes of 911 calls and death certificates related to the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre could be acted on in the General Assembly as early as the end of the week, officials said Wednesday....Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Elections, Adam Lanza, Police Investigations, Justice and Rights
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Best of Fairfield County 2013: Best Cigar Shop/Bar
1) Connecticut Cigar Company 43 Bank St. Stamford (203) 425-9668 ctcigarco.com 2) Beans and Leaves 1565 Black Rock Tnpke. Fairfield (203) 870-9843 3) Big Buddha Cigar Lounge 27 Hawleyville Road Newtown (203) 304-1857
Tags: Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut), Stamford, Fairfield County
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Sturm, Ruger Booming, But What Happened To Freedom Group Sale?
The Hartford CourantNo one should be surprised that Sturm, Ruger & Co. reported record sales for the first three months of 2013. Even before the Newtown tragedy, in early 2012, the Fairfield-based gunmaker had to halt new sales for a few weeks just to keep up with the...Tags: Firearms, Dannel P. Malloy , Sandy Hook Elementary School, Lazard Limited, Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Roanoke College posts poll results about Virginians and hot-button issues
There are some interesting results from a new Roanoke College poll. It asked respondents about important social issues nationally, and polled people across Virginia. On immigration reform, when offered a choice of how to deal with immigrants in the U....
Tags: Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Opinion Research Corporation, Family, Politics, Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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A Lawsuit Could Test the Limits of the Rights of the Disabled in the Bedroom
Caroline Kendall Kortner led a brief and often hellish life. Born in 1970, Kendall, as she was called, lived out her childhood in the Cos Cob neighborhood of Greenwich. When she was eight, a neighborhood boy began sexually molesting her. Soon after, she...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Alzheimer's Disease, The Institute of Living, Sexual Assault, Cerebral Palsy
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In Connecticut, Obama makes emotional appeal for gun legislation
HARTFORD, Conn. – President Obama drew the families of the Newtown school shooting victims into an emotional call to pass gun control measures on Monday, urging that the displays of solidarity and grief in the aftermath not be the end of the...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, University of Hartford, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Interior Policy
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Connecticut lawmakers pass wide-ranging gun control law
Connecticut lawmakers gave final approval early Thursday to a wide-ranging bill that includes sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown that one lawmaker...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Joan V Hartley, Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Mental Health, Periodicals
Mar 9, 2013
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