Assault, Sandy Hook

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut.The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut,The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut,The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut,The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut,The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition. As of December 2015 the US congress has not passed any gun control legislation although there has been some progress by state and city governents in establishing controls on the sale of guns and ammunition in the US