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January 30, 2013

Newtown Parent Pleads for Assault Weapons Ban 
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In testimony on Tuesday before lawmakers at the Connecticut legislature,
Neil Heslin, a grieving parent who lost his six-year-old son in
Newtown's Sandy Hook massacre, pleaded for a ban on assault weapons.

Neil Heslin: "I just hope that everybody in this room, as I said before,
can support change, ban assault weapons and high-capacity clips and
magazines, and that's a step in the right direction."

 

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