Connecticut Gun Stores Draw Crowds as Vote on Ban Nears
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Only a few parking spaces were free and customers lined up 50-deep today at Hoffman’s Gun Center in Newington, Connecticut, on what may be one of the last days that stores are allowed to sell assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
“Whenever the government tells me I can’t do something, I want to do it,” John O’Lenechuck, 32, said after he bought a part for a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle, which would be banned under a proposed bill that could be approved as soon as tomorrow. “I need to get it while it is still legal.”