Former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords has visited the Connecticut town where a gunman killed 26 people at an elementary school last month.
The former Arizona congresswoman met with Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra, US Senator Richard Blumenthal and Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman.
Ms Giffords, accompanied by her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, spent about half an hour at the local town hall.
Later she was planning to meet family members of some of the Newtown victims, said a spokesman for Ms Wyman.
Gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six staff members in a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on December 14.
Ms Giffords was left partially blind and with a paralysed right arm and brain damage after being shot in the head by a gunman at a constituent meet-and-greet outside a Tucson grocery store in early 2011.
Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty and was sentenced in NovemberArizona's chief federal judge and five others were killed in the attack and 12 people, in addition to Ms Giffords, were wounded.
The gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, pleaded guilty to 19 charges and was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.
Ms Giffords has made few public appearances since the shooting. She came face-to-face with Loughner when he was sentenced in November.
She retired from Congress last year to focus on her recovery.
She has also become a symbol for gun control advocates in the increasingly heated debate over firearms.
On the day of the Newtown massacre Mark Kelly said it should lead to better gun control.
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