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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.

NEW CASTLE COUNTY, Del. - The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is honoring a fallen Delaware State Police Corporal by paying his family's mortgage.More than four years have passed since Corporal Stephen Ballard died trying to keep his community safe. He was shot and killed on April 26, 2017, in the parking lot of a Bear Wawa after approaching a suspicious car.He left behind a wife, Louise Cummings and nine-year-old daughter, Abigail.