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FILE: Dec. 27, 2012: Shown here are weapons collections in a gun buyback event in La. AP
Democratic lawmakers across the country are proposing bills for gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings, including the measurement of at least far-reaching state that might interfere with federal laws.
At least seven States have proposed such legislation. Among the latest proposals are those that require gun owners or creators to buy liability insurance to cover damages for injuries caused by their weapons.
Two California Democrats proposed that a Bill encourages owners to gun-safety classes nor attend the State Assembly last week that and their weapons to get insurance discounts.
Assembly Member Philip Ting, of San Francisco, told a local TV station which auto insurance proposal comparable to mandatory for motorists.
Last week, Democrats in the Colorado House and Senate proposed a slate of gun control bills, including one to do the manufacturers and sellers of assault-style weapons legally liable for damages caused by their firearms.
However, the second amendment scholar David Kopel told the Denver post that such a bill with 2005 would conflict with federal law that prevents manufacturers and retailers be liable for crimes committed with their products.
"However, the manufacturers and retailers can still be held responsible for damage caused by defective products, the breach of contract, criminal negligence and other actions for which they are directly responsible," he told the newspaper.
The legislator introduced bill joined survivors and relatives of victims of two mass shootings in Colorado-the attack of the 1999 Columbine High School and Aurora Cinema in 2012-as well as those of the elementary school in Newtown, Conn., resumed two months ago.
As proposed by President Obama and Senate Democrats, the Colorado plan therefore calls limit 10 rounds ammunition magazines and put people with severe mental health problem state background check database for potential gun buyers.
Republican State Sen. Greg Brophy called the extreme measure and told the newspaper the proposal was the equivalent of "holding Coors, the Distributor and the 7-Eleven from which the 12-pack of beer stolen thing responsible for the accident to drunk driving."
New York was the first to relearn opinie after the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut where they were killed before 20-graders and six adults.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, last month signed into law bills that strengthened state laws on assault weapons, gun magazine capacity and reporting potential harmful behavior.
In Maryland, gov. Martin O'Malley, another potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, has proposed an ambitious gun-control package that includes a ban on assault weapon restrictions on visitors ' access to schools, fingerprints from gun buyers and keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania presumably have proposed similar measures.
