Report: DECD offered loan to gunmaker before Newtown shooting

Eight days before the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) had offered a gun company a $1 million loan to move its headquarters from North Carolina to Stamford, according to the Hartford Courant.

Days after the shooting, the DECD withdrew the offer to Freedom Group for various reasons, the Courant reported. Freedom Group is a holding company for gun manufacturers, including the Bushmaster AR-15, the gun Adam Lanza had used in the Newtown shooting. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has also proposed banning the gun in the state.

Reporters at the Hartford Courant received the information through a Freedom of Information Act request.