Originally published on April 27, 2021 4:54 pm
Six Connecticut cities have joined an effort by over two dozen cities and counties across the country to reduce gun deaths. The Gun Safety Consortium wants manufacturers to produce safety devices to prevent gun theft, suicides and accidental shootings.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, is one of the cities. Mayor Joe Ganim, who was first in office in the 1990s, joined the national coalition of cities that unsuccessfully sued gun manufacturers.
Ganim hopes this time would be more successful because it s using the buying power of city police forces to get manufacturers to produce safer products.
“Testing out these safer guns. These smart guns. This new technology, 30 years since we brought the lawsuits now, maybe with an eye to having the type of impact we wanted to have back then, but let’s have it now,” Ganim said.
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