Governing: In Connecticut, the state that heavily cracked down on guns in the wake of a 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school, there's a new push to cut the National Rifle Association out of the gun-permitting equation.
On Monday, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin sent a letter to Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy and top state lawmakers, calling for the state to develop its own curriculum for training instructors and gun-holders. The only other jurisdictions that run their own training programs are California and Washington, D.C. -- for instructors -- and Rhode Island -- for gun-holders.
Bronin, a Democrat running to replace Malloy, said language in the state’s gun permitting statute acts as “inadvertent, indirect support for the NRA” and works to legitimize the group.
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