Posted February 16, 2018 9:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Democrats along with an anti-gun group are pushing for a series of bans on popular guns and magazines coupled with new gun free zones. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Lawmakers in the nation’s smallest state are planning a large package of bills in conjunction with gun control activists that could see bans on certain types of semi-automatics and their magazines.
Allied with the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, Sen. Joshua Miller, D-Cranston, and Rep. Jason Knight, D-Barrington, are introducing proposals in both chambers of the legislature that would add the same types of firearms restrictions seen in neighboring Connecticut and Massachusetts. Knight argued the move is needed to protect public safety in the aftermath of a high-profile school shooting in Florida this week.
“It will take a multi-pronged strategy that includes banning the sale and ownership of assault weapons,” Knight said. “There (sic) purpose goes far beyond defense of self and home. There is no place for them in civil society.”
The measures, part of the local gun control group’s longstanding legislative agenda, aims to not only go after some types of semi-auto firearms currently legal in the state but also, through a measure sponsored by state Sen. Gayle Goldin, D-Providence, any detachable magazine capable

Source: Guns.com

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