Measures include a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines like the one in the school massacre that left 26 deadPoliticians announced a deal on Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws ever seen in the United States. The measures, proposed after the Sandy Hook mass shooting in the state, include a ban on a new high-capacity ammunition magazine like the one in the massacre that left 20 children and six educators dead.The proposal also called for background checks for private gun sales and a new registry for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets, something of a compromise for parents of the Newtown school victims who had wanted an outright ban on them, while legislators had proposed grandfathering them into the law.The package also creates what lawmakers said is the nation's first state-wide dangerous weapon offender registry, immediate universal background checks for all firearms sales and expansion of Connecticut's assault weapons ban.

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