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House Bill 1230 was rejected in a 6-7 vote in the House Judiciary Committee at about 1 a.m. following a 14-hour hearing that featured testimony from hundreds of people.
A bill to ban the sale or purchase of assault weapons in Colorado died early Thursday morning after three Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee joined with their Republican colleagues in voting against it.
Colorado’s Democratic majority has already sent several gun control bills to Gov. Jared Polis for his signature, but a bid to ban the sale and manufacture of so-called assault weapons failed ear.