Capi degli Stati proponendo passi al controllo pistole

Luke Sharrett for the New York TimesGun opponents held a vigil in front of the White House. On Capitol Hill, some Republicans expressed support for new policies.

The first concrete responses to the massacre in Newtown, Conn., began on Tuesday, emerging as a leading State proposed measures to curb gun violence, the company distances itself from an event that traumatized the nation and the White House emphasized the gun control measures that President Obama would be standard in the next few months.

N.R.A. issued a statement and said it would hold a news conference Friday.

An interview with rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a school bus pulled into Newtown High School in Connecticut on Tuesday, when students are returning to school.

The reactions were considerably more broad-based than what had followed previous mass shootings, from the Democratic Republicans, advocates of gun control and those who favored gun rights in the past and also from corporate and retail worlds. Proponents of stricter controls on firearms said they were cautiously optimistic that maybe this time, something concrete and durable could be enacted.

In California, democratic leaders introduced legislation that would mandate background checks and permits a year for anyone who wanted to buy ammunition there. In Michigan, a Republican Governor vetoed legislation that would have allowed concealed weapons in schools. And a private equity firm announced it would sell off the company that made the assault rifle used in high-power Newtown resumed last week.

The National Rifle Association broke the silence about the massacre with what he called an "important statement by the National Rifle Association," saying that the Organization, which has staunchly fought almost any federal or state law, gun control, was likely to reconsider its position.

"The N.R.A. is prepared to offer significant contributions to make sure this never happens again," said the statement. It does not provide details.

This is hardly the first time that a mass killing on American soil product promises to curb firearms, these efforts only to falter as memories faded and powerful gun supporters, led by N.R.A., stood up in the corridors of Washington or in statehouses. In some cases, moves were not presented as a permanent change in policy; one of them was an announcement by Dick's Sporting Goods which would stop many types of firearms, which could produce significant revenue losses for the sales chain.

While this was happening, millions of American gun owners — about 40 percent of American households report having a gun — was deeply resistant to any moves to restrict the second amendment gun rights. And not all the moves announced Tuesday, pointed the gun tighter controls.

In Ohio, gov. John r. Kasich, a Republican, announced that he would sign legislation that would allow people to keep guns in their cars at the Statehouse parking garage and make it easier for the renewal of licences and to carry concealed weapons. "I think as we move forward, whatever we do, we will not erode the second amendment rights of law-abiding citizens," he said.

Still, the waterfall development since Friday's shooting brought a major gun-control organizations, the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence, to proclaim a surge and legal culture in the nation's view of firearms. Is a view reinforced with every new picture of the funeral of a child in elementary school, 20 of whom were killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school, along with 6 adults.

"We've never seen anything like this before," said Brian Malte, outreach Director for the Brady Campaign.

At the White House, Jay Carney, the Press Secretary, suggested that President Obama was likely supports a ban on assault weapons, similar to the type used in Newtown. Mr. Carney said the President, who has used his eulogy to murdered children Sunday to report a personal effort to address gun control in his second term, might support a ban on the type of clips of high-capacity ammunition used by the young gunman, Adam Laforme, who killed himself as police approached.

On Capitol Hill, some Congressional Republicans on Tuesday were cautiously supportive of the idea of exploring new policies. He would not even reject the notion of restrictions or prohibitions on certain types of weapons or ammunition and rejected the notion raised by some Republicans that it was too early to begin discussing legislative remedies, said Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

"You don't see that it is too early to talk about it," he said. "The Americans, all of our fellow citizens are talking about it."

Whatever happens in Washington, there was growing evidence that, in some States, legislators and governors were moving forward.

Reporting was contributed by Stephanie Clifford, Michael Cooper, Monica Davey, Dan Frosch, Ian Lovett, Michael d. Shear and Jennifer Steinhauer.

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