House Speaker Ronald Mariano said he is “extremely proud” of Massachusetts’ gun laws Wednesday — considered some of the tightest in the nation — while Senate President Karen Spilka said her branch would take a look at potential reforms in the wake of a Texas school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
An 18-year-old gunman walked into a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and opened fire at “anyone that was in his way,” authorities there said. The school shooting was the deadliest in the United States since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut in 2012 and comes two weeks after 10 Black people were killed at a Buffalo, New York supermarket.
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Politicians claim AR15’s are illegal in Massachusetts.
An 18-year-old gunman walked into a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and opened fire at “anyone that was in his way,” authorities there said. The school shooting was the deadliest in the United States since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut in 2012 and comes two weeks after 10 Black people were killed at a Buffalo, New York supermarket.
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Uvalde shooting triggers closer look at gun laws; Mass. lawmakers say they will review additional reforms
At least one bill under consideration at the State House would ban the production of what the state defines as assault weapons, which Spilka said she would “look into the language of the bill.”
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Politicians claim AR15’s are illegal in Massachusetts.