NPR ran a fascinating piece on the multibillion-dollar industry that has grown up around school security. Bullet-proof whiteboards, drones, stop the bleed kits for classrooms—school districts are now among the biggest purchasers of such items. But experts say we can’t buy our way to safer schools, and point to intervention programs and stronger gun laws
As summer comes to a close (sigh), we want to highlight all of the trainings, workshops, and gun lock distributions YOU have helped us support over the past three months: Tabling and Gun Lock Distributions: Email us at info@coloradoceasefire.org if you’re interested in any of our free workshops, trainings, or gun lock distributions. We would
Officials say a decision is pending on whether to charge the parents of a 13-year-old Parkland, Wash. boy who allegedly threatened a school shooting online. Investigators seized 23 weapons, many unsecured, from the boy’s home. Washington State has secure-storage and minor firearms possession laws similar to Colorado’s, but which also include a ban on minors
The California Legislature passed SB 704 on Tuesday, which would require background checks on the purchase of industrially manufactured firearm barrels—essential to complete unserialized, untraceable 3D-printed ghost guns. Firearm barrels are the only parts of a functional firearm that cannot effectively be produced using a 3D printer. Currently, these barrels are unregulated and can be
Details continue to trickle out concerning yesterday’s shooting at Evergreen High School, in which two students were wounded and the shooter took his own life. Information regarding a motive, or where the shooter obtained the weapon he used, has yet to be released. Colorado Ceasefire issued the following statement yesterday on both the Evergreen and
