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DOVER, Del. - While protesters chanted outside his door, Delaware Governor John Carney signed six new gun reform measures Thursday including a ban on the sale of assault weapons.Carney, surrounded by legislators, gun reform advocates and people who have lost loved ones to gun violence said, "it’s about providing sensible gun safety legalization within the context of the Second Amendment rights and the limits imposed by our legislators."The bills, worked on throughout June in Dover, ban the sale of assault weapons, raise to 21 the age when certain guns may be purchased, make gun dealers and manufacturers liable in certain gun crimes and ban the use of devices that make firearms fully automatic.MORE LOCAL HEADLINESGun rights advocates, who filled an area outside the Governor’s second floor office, promised a stiff court challenge."Tyranny has a face and it’s John Carney", said Mitch Denham of Delaware Gun Rights. "Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self defense taking guns away will hurt more than help."The package of bills emerged in Delaware after a wave of mass killings in the country.

DOVER, Del. - Delaware state senate appears poised to approve a package of gun reform measures amid heavy opposition from national gun rights groups. The bills, proposed after the massacres in Buffalo and Texas, would ban assault weapons, raise the age to purchase a long gun or rifle from 18 to 21 and expand background checks.Senate President David Sokola told FOX 29's Jeff Cole that he believes the measures would make Delaware streets safer."There are a number of places that have banned magazine capacities the data shows those places typically are safer," Sokloa said. Other bills would make gun dealers liable i they negligently sold a weapon that was later used in a crime. Meanwhile, Mitch Denham, the president of Delaware Gun Rights, called the effort, "disingenuous. He added, "more kids die in school bus accidents than get shot in schools, but they’re not putting seat belts in school busses."The bills are expected to pass and Governor John Carney is likely to sign them.