Police Chief of Newtown Backs Assault Weapons Ban

By Philip Caulfield, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Police Chief of Newtown Backs Assault Weapons Ban

January 14, 2013 Updated Jan 14, 2013 at 11:23 AM PDT

The police chief of Newtown, Conn., the site of the Sandy Hook school massacre, urged the White House to ban assault rifles, saying he was "sickened" by the unimaginable horror that has rocked his quiet family community.

“Ban assault weapons, restrict those magazines that have so many bullets in them, shore up any loopholes in our criminal background checks,” Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe told NBC News, when asked what his message to President Obama would be.

Kehoe told the network that he still has nightmares about what he saw when he arrived at the school on the morning of Dec. 14, minutes after 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza ended his rampage by taking his own life.

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