HARTFORD, Conn. – Three years after strengthening Connecticut’s gun laws, some lawmakers expressed uncertainty about the bill that would let law enforcement ask a person to see their permit to carry a firearm, regardless of whether the person was suspected of criminal activity.
Sen. Ed Gomes, D-Bridgeport, said he worries that the bill could lead to racial profiling and police would use it to stop individuals who may or may not have a gun.
But Ricardo Lopez, vice president of the Bridgeport Police Union, told the legislature’s Public Safety and Security Committee on Thursday that most if not all of the Bridgeport Police Department have been “left with an uncertainty due to the fact that the current law seems convoluted.”
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