Tag: Gun Rights
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Perspective: Colorado’s crumbling right to arms
Colorado did not become one of the country’s most restrictive states for gun ownership overnight. The transformation happened incrementally, one bill at a time, often under the banner of “common sense” reform, with each new regulation layered atop the last. Taken individually, many of these laws were presented to the public as modest or technical adjustments. Viewed…
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Gun rights groups split with Trump administration over Minnesota shooting
The death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis is opening a new fault line between President Donald Trump and his conservative base, as gun rights groups denounce what they say are a series of anti-Second Amendment statements justifying the shooting. The Trump administration has faced withering GOP criticism after officials argued that Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU…
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10th Circuit clears path for Colorado’s increased firearms purchasing age to take effect
The panel of judges employed different reasoning, but all concluded the Second Amendment challenge was unlikely to succeed
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Federal judge blocks Colorado law raising firearm-purchase age, lets waiting period take effect
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A federal judge on Monday granted the request of two Colorado residents to block a new Colorado law generally raising the age limit for purchasing firearms to 21. At the same time, in a separate lawsuit, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer declined to bar enforcement of another recently-enacted law establishing a three-day…
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Gun rights activists sue to stop enforcement of Colorado’s 2013 large capacity magazine ban
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Gun rights activists on Tuesday sued Gov. Jared Polis, asking a Denver district court to stop enforcement of a 2013 state law that bans the possession of large capacity magazines capable of accepting more than 15 rounds. The National Foundation for Gun Rights, the legal arm of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, and two Colorado residents…
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Three cities in Boulder County tighten gun-control laws
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Insisting on local control, three cities in Boulder County voted to adopt their own gun-control ordinances Tuesday night in response to 2021 legislation that gives local governments power to enact gun regulations stricter than state laws. Before the 2021 law, Colorado statutes preempted cities and counties from passing any regulation…
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EDITORIAL: Alec Baldwin should advocate gun education
If Alec Baldwin was correct, we would have a safer world. We could worry less about guns. After Baldwin shot and killed his friend, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last week, he declared it a “one in a trillion event.” If only this were true… If so, gun accidents would rank among the least of our concerns…
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INSIGHTS | It’s hard to find common ground on guns
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EDITOR’S NOTE: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of Feb. 23, 2018. Maybe if partisans didn’t go too far. I don’t know. It confounds me why we can’t talk constructively about guns in this state, or this nation, without…