Columnist Mike Littwin notes that the latest draft of a bill to ban purchase of so-called assault weapons in Colorado wouldn’t ban possession. But it would be a starting place.
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Silverman: Club Q victims deserve better law enforcement and criminal justice. Let the feds take over.
El Paso County law enforcement bears responsibility for enormous errors with the Club Q gunman
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Littwin: The more we know about Club Q suspect, the less we know about why red flag law wasn’t invoked
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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Jim Morrissey: In 2022, Colorado reached a heartbreaking mass shooting milestone
Cartoonist Jim Morrissey observes that the only real winner in Colorado’s mass shooting calculation — 2022 marked the most in state history — is the Grim Reaper.
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Littwin: The Club Q shooting demands an answer to a key question — why wasn’t red flag law invoked?
What the law’s opponents don’t seem to get is that the red flag law was designed to keep guns away from those with mental health issues.
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Zornio: As more officers are killed with guns, it’s time for police unions to push for more gun safety laws
Finding common ground on criminal justice and gun safety reform means accepting that both the killing of police officers, and the killing of citizens by police officers, are wrong
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Gun rights groups sue more Boulder County cities over their new firearm regulations
BOULDER — Two gun rights organizations filed federal court lawsuits Thursday challenging bans on semi-automatic weapons and magazine ammunition restrictions adopted by two Colorado cities after the state allowed local municipalities to enact tougher gun control measures than called for by state law. The lawsuits against Boulder and Louisville by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and […]
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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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Five bystanders injured in downtown Denver as police officers shoot at man authorities say was armed
Five people were hurt in Lower Downtown Denver early Sunday when police officers shot a man they say was armed as bars in the crowded entertainment district let out. The five people, three women and two men, are expected to survive their injuries. They appear to have been innocent bystanders wounded in officers’ crossfire. The […]
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The gun dealer next door: In-home gun sales become target of one Colorado city’s residents and officials
Greenwood Village banned commercial firearm sales from homes following outrage over one man’s business. But the new ordinance doesn’t affect his business.