Gun Control

Colorado’s red flag law allows judges to order the temporary seizure of guns from someone they think is a significant risk to themselves or others, even in Second Amendment sanctuary counties.

Proposition KK could create a stable and ongoing funding stream for victim services, ensuring that programs can continue to provide essential support. Unlike other proposed firearms legislation, this initiative does not regulate guns but instead levies a tax to fund programs.

A new national divide is emerging among states over whether to track sales by gun stores. A California law taking effect Monday will require credit card networks to provide banks with special retail codes to assign to gun stores. Advocates hope it will help flag suspicious purchases and avert mass shootings.

Starting on Monday, new state laws will ban firearms in so-called “sensitive spaces” and remove local limits on how many people can live together. The measures are among more than a dozen new state laws going into effect next week.

Bump stocks are devices that attach to guns and allow a rate of fire similar to machine guns. The accessory was banned by the Trump administration in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, which happened a country music festival in Las Vegas in 2017.

Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature has nixed a bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms. The Colorado House passed the ban in a historic vote this year after roughly the same proposal was swiftly nixed last year.

The State House recently passed a bill that would ban the purchase, sale and transfer of semi-automatic weapons. The bill passed 35-27 mainly along party lines. It now awaits approval in the Senate. Colorado Sun reporter David Krause spoke with KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on this complex situation.

Colorado's Democratic-controlled House has passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms. It's a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year.

For the second year in a row, high school students skipped class and headed to the statehouse to demand legislative solutions to gun violence. State lawmakers are considering several gun control bills, including one that would designate locations like schools, churches, recreation centers and the State Capitol as gun-free zones.

Domestic violence deaths are on the rise in Colorado and the holiday season can be an especially fraught time for people in abusive relationships. In The NoCo sheds some light on the problem and looks at resources for people in Northern Colorado.