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In this Jan. 28, 2013, file photo, firearms training unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting, during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Judge dismisses Newtown families’ lawsuit against gun maker

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

In this Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, Carlee Soto uses a phone to ask about her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., after gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people inside the school, including 20 children. Victoria Soto, 27, was among those killed. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

James Tracy, Sandy Hook ‘truther,’ sues Florida college for wrongful termination

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - This July 27, 2014 file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and her husband, Syed Farook, as they passed through O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The attack in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 people dead represented a type of extremist plot law enforcement authorities consider exceedingly difficult to detect: a conspiracy between close family members. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP, File)

Expanded gun background checks wouldn’t stop recent gunmen, study finds

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by the Lafayette Police Department shows John Russel Houser, in Lafayette, La. Authorities have identified Houser as the gunman who opened fire in a movie theater on Thursday, July 23, 2015, in Lafayette. (Lafayette Police Department via AP)

Mental health experts respond carefully to mass killings

By David Crary - Associated Press

Boarded up windows beside the entrance to the Jack Evans Police Headquarters on S. Lamar provide the backdrop for a television news segment in Dallas, Sunday, June 14, 2015. James Boulware, the man linked to a violent assault on Dallas police headquarters was accused two years earlier of choking his mother, then fleeing to an East Texas town where schools were locked down out of fear he would attack them as "soft targets," according to accounts from police and family members. (Guy Reynolds/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

James Boulware’s relatives say suspect tied to Dallas shooting was mentally unstable

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

FILE - This undated identification file photo provided Wednesday, April 3, 2013, by Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn., shows former student Adam Lanza, who carried out the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. A Connecticut agency that investigated the background of the socially isolated, violence-obsessed man, Lanza, who carried out the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School is issuing a report Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, on his mental health and educational history. The Office of Child Advocate investigates all child deaths in the state for lessons on prevention. (AP Photo/Western Connecticut State University, File)

Agency: Schools helped Lanza’s mom ‘appease’ him

By Pat Eaton-Robb and Michael Melia - Associated Press

Bill seeks stronger gun laws in Massachusetts

By BOB SALSBERG - Associated Press

Connecticut police to be trained on mentally ill

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

Gun rights advocates hope for convention impact

By SUSAN HAIGH - Associated Press

Looney will also oppose Conn.’s 911-tape limits

Associated Press

Gun rights advocates successfully shot back in 2014. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, John Rawlston)

NRA gears up to mark a year of victories at convention in Indianapolis

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Conn. public information law changes uncertain

By SUSAN HAIGH - Associated Press

Lone candidate in debate backs Connecticut gun law

By SUSAN HAIGH - Associated Press

Official White House photo of President Obama shooting a shotgun on Aug. 4, 2012.

Gun sales hit new record, ammo boom to follow

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 14, 2012, file photo, Robert and Alissa Parker, at right, leave a firehouse staging area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Gunman Adam Lanza opened fire inside the school, killing 26 children and adults, including the Parkers' daughter Emilie Parker, 6. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

A year after Newtown, answers and action remain elusive

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A bus traveling from Newtown, Conn., to neighboring Monroe stops in front of 26 “angels” along the roadside on the first day of classes in Monroe on Thursday for Sandy Hook Elementary School students. A vacant Chalk Hill School in Monroe was overhauled especially for the students after the Sandy Hook School shootings that killed 26 on Dec. 14. (Associated Press)

Gun permit apps in Newtown set to double last year’s numbers: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times