HARTFORD — Second Amendment rights advocates in Connecticut are mobilizing to influence this weekend’s state Republican convention, as they seek changes to Connecticut’s sweeping gun-control law, which was passed last year after the Newtown school massacre.
In recent months, the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, a statewide gun rights group, has instructed members how to become one of the 1,255 delegates to the two-day GOP convention. The group hopes to have a strong delegate presence and get a say in who the party backs to challenge Governor Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat and a gun law supporter
While some gun rights advocates would like to see the next governor push to repeal the law, others realize that would be a challenge, given the strong support for the legislation in the General Assembly. They are banking instead on the law being overturned someday by the courts .