By Nate Raymond

(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a Connecticut ban on assault weapons the state adopted after a gunman in 2012 killed 20 school children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

A three-judge panel of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2013 ban remained valid even after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2022 on the right to bear arms in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

That decision, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, was issued by the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority and held that modern gun restrictions must be "consistent with this nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."

Lawyers for a group of Connecticut residents, joined by organizations i

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