Gun owners, rights groups challenge Connecticut firearms ban


              FILE - Connecticut Attorney General William Tong speaks outside the Connecticut Supreme Court during a news conference, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, in Hartford, Conn. Citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year, gun rights groups and firearms owners filed a new lawsuit Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in federal court in another attempt to overturn Connecticut's ban on certain semiautomatic rifles that was enacted in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. “Connecticut’s gun laws save lives, and we are not going back,” state Attorney General William Tong said in a statement. (AP Photo/Chris Ehrmann, File)
            
              FILE - Firearms training unit Det. 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 December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting, during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee in Hartford, Conn., on Jan. 28, 2013. Citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year, gun rights groups and firearms owners filed a new lawsuit Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in federal court in another attempt to overturn Connecticut's ban on certain semiautomatic rifles that was enacted in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Gun owners, rights groups challenge Connecticut firearms ban