Connecticut Gov. Lamont Seeks to Ban More Guns, Raise Purchase Age to 21

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont speaks during a visit to a vaccination clinic in Stamford, Conn., on March 14, 2021. John Moore/Getty Images

Since the Dec. 12, 2012, massacre of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the state has passed several laws to restrict and make it more challenging to own and use a firearm.

Connecticut has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation.