In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, gun control advocates across the country – including Indiana – are making a renewed push to tighten restrictions on gun sales. However, they’re getting mixed messages from the incoming Pence administration. Stephen Dunlop is president of the group Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence. His organization is proposing a series of changes to Indiana’s gun laws, including a limitation on the number of handgun purchases made at one time and punishment for gun owners when a child gains access to an unsecured firearm and injures themselves or others. He also says he doesn’t want to hear from gun owners who say they’re worried the government’s going to take away their guns. “I don’t think there’s any movement by anybody interested in gun violence to forcibly remove guns from people, perhaps with the exception at this point of assault weapons.” Governor-elect Mike Pence has been ambivalent on the subject of increased gun control, saying
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