The Connecticut Bar Association is currently weighing a proposal to join in the defense of Connecticut gun control measures that were passed in wake of the Newtown school massacre in December 2012.

Mark Dubois, the president of the CBA, said the organization’s Human Rights and Responsibility Section has requested that the CBA join an amicus to support efforts to defend the constitutionality of the state’s recent ban on assault weapons, as well as new restrictions on large-capacity ammunition magazines.