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Colorado Supreme Court upholds state’s law banning large-capacity gun magazines
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a fierce gun rights organization based in Colorado, challenged the large-capacity magazine law. They argue that it violates the state constitution.
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Opinion: The safe storage gun safety bill is dead, but the fight will continue
By Rep. Monica Duran Opinion
Colorado gun sales have spiked in the past week amid coronavirus fears
By Jesse Paul News Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado gun owners who don’t safely store their weapons could face jail time under new bill
By Jesse Paul Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Red flag law petition filed against Colorado State University police officer in fatal 2017 shooting
In her Jan. 9 petition for an extreme risk protection order, Susan Holmes said there was a credible risk of unlawful or reckless use of a firearm by Phillip Morris because he threatened and killed her son
Owner, operator of Shooters Grill in Rifle launches conservative primary challenge to Republican Scott Tipton
Lauren Boebert says U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, has been “utterly silent” as “left-wing lunatics are taking a wrecking ball to our country.”
Gun owner in fatal shooting of CSU student will avoid prison as judge questions botched investigation
After Snapchat image reopened case, Larimer County prosecutors said gaps in the original Fort Collins police investigation hurt attempts to pursue stronger charges.
Colorado’s guidance to police on the red flag law doesn’t include what to do if someone won’t give up their guns
The lack of a roadmap on the crucial — and potentially deadly — question of what to do when someone refuses to hand over their guns underscores broader law enforcement unknowns around the complicated new law
Colorado Supreme Court weighs legality of state’s 15-round limit on gun magazines
The magazine-limit law was passed in 2013, a year after the Aurora theater shooting
Colorado gun stores still sell high-capacity magazines despite 2013 law banning them
Magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition are still being sold in Colorado. Legislators thought that they banned them, but gun store employees describe a loophole in the law.
These five bills are designed to make Colorado schools safer. None touches on guns.
Colorado’s School Safety Committee pushed forward legislation that could better address students’ behavioral health needs. Lawmakers left guns out of the conversation largely for the sake of bipartisanship.
Shootings and shock value: Hoodies, video use similar tactics — including invoking Columbine massacre
Both used shock value to make a point about gun violence — and both are dealing with different levels of reaction, some positive and, in the case of the fashion show, a lot of it negative