Whatever the El Paso County DA and sheriff say, the measure was passed to address cases just like the Club Q suspect’s earlier arrest
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Emboldened by recent court ruling, Colorado gun rights group sues again to overturn ban on large-capacity magazines
The legal arm for Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is suing Gov. Jared Polis in federal court, ratcheting up their fight against gun restrictions after a judge last week temporarily blocked a Colorado town’s new gun control rules. The National Foundation for Gun Rights filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver, challenging the […]
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Judge temporarily blocks Colorado town’s new gun control rules, including ban on assault-style rifles
By Jesse Bedayn and Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press A federal judge has temporarily blocked the town of Superior from enforcing parts of a new gun control ordinance, including a ban on the sale and possession of assault weapons, after it was challenged by gun rights groups. U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Moore issued a […]
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The statewide gun regulations adopted in Colorado in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting
The 2012 Aurora theater shooting, which left 12 people dead and 70 others injured, prompted Colorado Democrats to immediately begin pursuing tighter regulations on firearms. Since the attack 10 years ago Wednesday, no fewer than 10 statewide changes to gun policy have been adopted, making Colorado one of the nation’s most progressive states when it […]
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Littwin: They said it couldn’t happen in Highland Park. In America, gun violence strikes anywhere and everywhere.
You couldn’t call it exactly fitting that the latest mass shooting in America happened in a quiet Chicago suburb during the annual Fourth of July Parade. There can be nothing fitting about a 21-year-old, apparently obsessed with gun violence and armed with a “high-powered rifle” — generally assumed to be an AR-15-style assault weapon — […]
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Opinion: The problem is the wrong people obtaining guns
Since 1970, there have been 2,052 school shootings in the U.S. There have been calls for stronger gun control since JFK was assassinated, which was before I was born. I always brushed it off. Those shootings don’t happen in small towns like mine. Gun control is for the hardcore liberals who want to eliminate the […]
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Littwin: If bipartisan Senate group proposes a mostly toothless gun law, should Dems support it?
Shockingly, the U.S. Senate may be on the verge of passing some kind of gun-safety law. Yes, I said it would never happen, and I might still be right. But if I’m wrong and it does get passed, it would be a mostly toothless law. Let us count the ways. It wouldn’t ban semi-automatic assault […]
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Littwin: The U.S. Senate says it’s looking for ways to address gun violence. Anyone wanna bet?
It seems like a dream. In response, at least in part, to the gut-wrenching murder of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, legislation has been proposed — and is actually expected to pass — that would place severe limitations on the guns most likely to be used in mass murders and also those most […]
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Opinion: I’ve lived in a country with gun control. It works.
Ten days after the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, Americans were reeling from yet another preventable tragedy. The lives of 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school did not have to end in such hateful bloodshed. As devastated as this country is, we cannot allow our grief to stall our […]
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Opinion: Deadly shootings keep happening because nothing changes
On May 24, I could not hold back the tears. The news started with nine students getting shot at a Texas elementary school. Then, more. By the next morning, a count of 19 young children and two teachers were dead. All of them innocent victims going to school and trying to have a normal day. […]