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Members of the General Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted Thursday (2/3) to hold a public hearing on an omnibus anti-gun bill submitted by Governor Jodi Rell's State Police. Included in the proposal are provisions which would outlaw the private sale or transfer of long guns and would apply purchase age requirements to possession, effectively eliminating youth hunting! This bill would also create universal registration. Last week we reported to you that the committee agreed to hold hearings on legislation banning .50 caliber firearms, as well as several other gun-related vehicles should they be approved by the committee. Allof these proposals...

WATERBURY -- It never dawned on William Bechard that the two old Smith & Wesson revolvers he found for sale earlier this year in the Bargain News would get him arrested. The classified advertisement newspaper led Bechard, 52, to a man in Hartford who was selling a .32-caliber revolver and a .38-caliber revolver. Bechard, of Waterbury, is an avid gun collector and trader who owns nearly 100 rifles and handguns, nearly all of them more than 50 years old. Bechard said he bought the two revolvers in April for about $300. The man Bechard bought the guns from called about...

<p>On July 2, Fairfax County police received a 911 call from a Champps restaurant in Reston. Six men are seated at a table, the caller said. They're all armed.</p> <p>Dispatchers quickly sent four officers to the scene. The officers were "extremely polite" and were hoping that some of the men were in law enforcement, said Sgt. Richard Perez, a spokesman for the police department. None was.</p>