The Denver suburb of Broomfield, Colorado, has become the latest locality in the state to adopt its own gun control measures following the repeal of the state’s firearm preemption law, but the a.
This year, Colorado Democrats are pushing for stronger gun control measures at the local level and statewide. But lawsuits and court cases threaten to immediately halt many of the proposed measures.
A Nov. 19 shooting that killed five people and wounded 19 at a Colorado Springs nightclub has officials considering changes to strengthen Colorado’s red flag law, particularly in self-declared “Second Amendment sanctuaries,” where emergency petitions.
In El Paso County, where five people were killed in a mass shooting at a nightclub in November, officials have filed relatively few emergency petitions to temporarily remove a person’s guns, with scant approvals.