A proposed ban on magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds of ammunition is among the suggestions of the 43-member gun-safety task force that Gov. Gina Raimondo created last April in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The 43-member gun-safety task force that Gov. Gina Raimondo created last April in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre released its final recommendations on Thursday, and they include passage of a passel of new laws that the Democratic leaders of Rhode Island's General Assembly have thus far been unwilling to bring to a vote.

They include: a ban on ammunition feeding devices — known as magazines — with a capacity of more than 10 rounds, prohibiting the concealed carry of firearms on school grounds and within 1,000 feet of elementary or secondary schools and in government buildings, and raising the age to buy a "long gun" from 18 to 21, where it already stands for handguns.

The group stopped short, however, of backing a ban on military-style assault weapons, opting to call instead for a new requirement that they be registered with a state or local law enforcement agency.

A majority of the group favored an outright ban of high-capacity, semi-automatic rifles, according to James Manni, the former top-ranked officer in the state police who co-chaired the panel. But, he said, "a minority within the group ... believed that tougher restrictions and regulations, which included raising the age to possess or purchases these type of weapons, requiring registration of these types of guns, and a ban on high-capacity magazines would accomplish much of the same goals as a ban.''

Citing the shooting of seven police officers in South Carolina a day earlier with what has been described as a high-powered rifle, he said: "When a police officer goes to a house, there's no idea who has firearms behind the doors." If there was a registry of assault rifles only, "you would know,'' he said, "that there are firearms present in the house."

Major Michael Jagoda, the head of the University of Rhode Island police force who, earlier in his career, was one of the officers at the scene of the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school massacre, was on one side of this debate, urging a ban because of the extensive damage such weapons can do in the hands of a single shooter.

Dean Hoxsie, chief of law enforcement and acting associate director of natural resources at the state's Department of Environmental Management, was on the other. A hunter and acknowledged owner of "an assault-style weapon that I enjoy as a shooter,'' he said, "A ban may not pass, but to register, restrict, have some regulation over, may have a better chance of passing."

Here are some of the other recommendations that came out of the months-long study by the "working group" co-chaired by Manni, the current Narragansett town manager, and Dr. Megan L. Ranney, an emergency room doctor:

Ban the production, possession, purchase or sale of 3-D printed firearms, which, in addition to being untraceable, may also be undetectable. Require purchasers of any firearm (not just handguns) to complete an approved safety course. Vest the Rhode Island Attorney General with the sole authority to issue a gun safety certificate, commonly referred to as a “Blue Card," and require a Blue Card for the purchase of any firearm. Additionally, the report said, "there was strong support" for vesting Rhode Island's attorney general with sole authority for issuing "concealed carry" permits.

Along with this, the report recommends: transferring responsibility for issuing a firearm safety certificate (Blue Card) from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to the attorney general, and beefing up the requirements necessary to obtain a Blue Card to purchase handguns — and apply those requirements to all firearms.

Speaking to the group late Thursday afternoon at the State House, Raimondo promised the group their inch-thick report "will not be a report that sits on a shelf in my office ... If we do the things in that report, we're going to save a lot of lives."

Among the other takeaways: theft, straw-purchasing, and unrecorded private transactions are the major sources of guns used to commit crimes in Rhode Island, including guns "brought into Rhode Island from other states where gun laws are more lax. It is often difficult to trace such firearms to their lawful owner due to state and federal legal restrictions on retention of records documenting gun purchases."

Some of the recommendations evidently came easily, including the proposed ban on high-capacity magazines.

While acknowledging that such weapons "account for a fairly small percentage of overall gun deaths in this country (the vast majority of gun injuries and deaths are caused by handguns and suicides)," the group concluded "that high-capacity semi-automatic rifles have been the weapon of choice of terrorists, criminals and mass shooters ... and that mass shootings that involve a high-capacity semi-automatic rifle have a higher death toll."

"Such a ban would be relatively straight-forward to implement, would avoid the difficulty of defining what constitutes an 'assault weapon,' and would target a principal risk posed by such weapons: the ability to rapid fire a large number of rounds without the need to reload," the group said. "There is simply no place for such firepower in civilian life."

No other recommendation "enjoyed greater, or more vociferous support, than the need for more mental health resources at elementary and secondary schools," the report said.

"All the school administrators, educators, students, law enforcement members, academics and mental health representatives in the Group strongly believed that it is crucial to identify at-risk youth early on, provide them with consistent supports, and encourage schools to work more closely with law enforcement and other[s] ... to keep those youth from either falling prey to, or perpetrating, gun violence."