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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.
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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.
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The defendant in a 2021 mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
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After losing her daughter in a shooting at a Colorado movie theater in 2012, Sandy Phillips was determined to help others grieving as deeply as she was. After a decade of it, though, the weight of their loss and their frustration with political inaction in the U.S. prompted her to do something she never thought possible: To give up on her own country and move to a new one.
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Two Colorado gun control laws taking effect will require that firearm buyers wait three days before receiving their weapon and open up the gun industry to some legal liability. The laws take effect Sunday and come as violent crime and mass shootings surge nationwide.
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A federal judge has blocked Colorado from enforcing a new law raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21. U.S. District Judge Philip Brimmer issued a preliminary injuction regarding the law Monday following a legal challenge by a gun rights group.
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The Broomfield-based company Biofire has produced a gun that can only be used by someone with the right fingerprint or face scan. Experts have differing visions of what a post-smart gun world might look like.
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Gun violence is a major topic of the day as a gun control advocacy group stages a sit-in at the Capitol and demands executive action from the governor, and the faith-based community takes a “swords into plowshares” approach with gun buyback programs.
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Protestors want Gov. Jared Polis to sign an executive order banning all guns in the state and implementing a gun buy-back program. Polis said such an order would be unconstitutional.
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Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill banning build-at-home firearms without serial numbers. The so-called ghost guns allow buyers to evade background checks and impede law enforcement's ability to trace a firearm's origin.