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Share This: Systemic Podcast

Give a listen to Season 3 of Systemic, the podcast from Colorado Public Radio. This season delves deep into issues surrounding teen gun crime in and around Denver, and the educators, activists, legislators, and police who are fighting it. While you’re there, consider throwing CPR a donation… they can use the help!

Trump Medicaid Cuts will Raise Gun Deaths, Critics Say

Gun violence victims are among those put at greatest risk by Donald Trump’s cuts to Medicaid, health officials say.  The Trace reports that Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ which was signed into law last month, will have compounding effects on the healthcare sector, violence prevention, and mental health services—especially for the people most affected by gun

Ceasefire Outreach Co-Hosts Gun Violence Prevention Events with Ute Mountain Ute Tribe

On Aug. 5 and 6, Colorado Ceasefire Outreach and other nonprofit organizations hosted two events with more than 100 youth, adults, and elders of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to share their experiences, concerns, and solutions related to gun violence on their reservation. Ute Mountain Ute Reservation sits within Montezuma and La Plata counties, which

Some Rural Sheriffs Say SB3 Could Mean Service Cuts, Budget Woes

Some sheriffs in Colorado mountain communities are unhappy to be charged with implementing SB3, the high-capacity permit-to-purchase law, when it goes into effect next year. Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Action and other gun violence prevention groups lobbied for the law, which is intended to reduce the likelihood of high-capacity, quickly reloaded weapons (such as the AR-15)

Share This: Firearm Life Plan

Four-in-ten U.S. adults say they live in a household with a gun, including 30% who say they personally own one—that’s 133 million Americans. As a western state, Colorado has an even higher percentage of people who live with guns. And close to 40 percent of households in the United States with older adults have at

CCW Makes People Feel Less Safe, Despite Gunmakers’ Claims: NSSF Research

Despite decades of gun-lobby claims that more weapons (particularly concealed weapons) make people safer, its own confidential research proves the opposite, according to a new Rolling Stone/The Trace report. One 2018 report, from gun industry trade group the National Shooting Sports Foundation, was based on a survey of 1,800 people from baby boomers to Gen

Ceasefire, McCarron Recognized with Fields Wolfe Pathfinder Award

Eileen McCarron Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Director Eileen McCarron has received the Fields Wolfe Memorial Scholarship Fund’s Pathfinder award for her decades of work on gun violence prevention in Colorado. The Award was given at the Fund’s 20th Anniversary Gala on July 26. The Fields Wolfe Memorial Scholarship Fund honors CSU alumni Javad Fields and Vivian