Joel Faxon, a Newtown resident and father of young children, is one of the town’s police commissioners. He is also a trial lawyer in the New Haven firm of Stratton Faxon.
Before the December shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Faxon was involved in the town’s controversial efforts to regulate shooting ranges within its borders. After the shooting, like others, he was shocked to hear about the arsenal shooter Adam Lanza had amassed, including a military-style AR-15 style Bushmaster rifle with a 30-round magazine and a semi-automatic Saiga 12-gauge shotgun with two magazines containing 70 rounds.
