NRA calls gun tragedy town three months after Sandy Hook school shooting

Homes in the US town where a crazed gunman killed 26 people, 20 of them children, have been receiving automated phone calls from the National Rifle Association gun lobby.

They began last week, only three months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

Residents said the calls urge people to tell their state legislators to oppose gun control proposals. Politicians are debating whether to ban military-style assault weapons, prohibit high-capacity ammunition magazines and other measures in response to the school shootings.

Dan O’Donnell lives in Newtown’s Sandy Hook area and said the robocalls were “ridiculous and insensitive.”