Connecticut is taking steps to block people who are banned from flying on commercial airliners from obtaining firearms permits, the state's Democratic governor, Dannel Malloy said on Thursday.<br />Malloy's move comes a week after a married couple inspired by Islamic State militants shot dead 14 people in California in the deadliest mass shooting the United States has seen since a gunman killed 26 people including 20 young children at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.<br />In an Oval Office address on Sunday, President Barack Obama called on Congress to act to ensure that people who are on the federal government's no-fly list cannot buy firearms.
