Suppressors for everybody!/Wikipedia The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Oct. 2 that it will not appeal a Texas Federal Court ruling striking down nearly century-old protections on silencers, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, and other dangerous firearms or devices in the National Firearms Act (NFA). For more than 90 years, those types of weapons
Sofiya Erman joined us as Outreach Program Coordinator last month, and has already begun working with our youth interns and delivering our school workshops on gun safety and gun violence prevention. She comes to us after 15 years in education, starting as a high school science teacher before becoming an Assistant Principal of Culture. Sofiya
Ceasefire’s Laney Sheffel and Cooper Dayton, with Guys Who Give’s Joe Zanone In great grant news, Ceasefire Outreach has received a grant from Denver Guys Who Give. Denver Guys Who Give is the local chapter of a national group of men who help local nonprofits with funding. Collectively, the group donates more than $10,000 per
October is School Safety Month, and among the “groundbreaking programs” the Colorado Office of School Safety is highlighting is our own Schools Outreach programming. Colorado Ceasefire Executive Director Laney Sheffel will present on the work we do (and that you support!) on Oct. 15 as part of the Colorado School Safety Showcase’s Violence Prevention Track.
Colorado Ceasefire Founder Eileen McCarron has announced that she will be ‘officially’ retiring from our group in October. Please RSVP to her retirement party on October 23rd to thank her for more than 25 years of work to stop gun violence in Colorado. From Eileen: After 31 ½ years of working on gun violence prevention
Colorado Ceasefire Outreach has received a grant from The Colorado Health Foundation for our internship program, partnering with CU Boulder’s Game Changers. Game Changers are a group of 35 young people who combine youth voices with the science of violence prevention to inspire their peers to take collective action. Their efforts bridge science, arts, and
The Colorado Permit-to-Purchase Coalition, including Colorado Ceasefire and other national and local gun violence prevention groups, has launched a new awareness campaign about the effectiveness of Permit-to-Purchase laws. Such laws, in effect in 11 other states, have been proven to reduce gun homicides, suicides, and mass shootings. They require prospective firearm purchasers to obtain a
A new Colorado Public Radio report on last year’s Evergreen High School Shooting closely examines Colorado’s safe storage law, and whether Jefferson County authorities were vigorous enough in determining how the shooter got the weapon he used to shoot and critically injure two students before taking his own life. The piece says that Colorado’s law,
Element 5/Unsplash Colorado Ceasefire usually doesn’t offer recommendations on non-gun-violence-related measures, but in this case we feel it is important for our friends and allies to know we are urging a NO vote on the ballot initiative Amendment 83. This proposed constitutional amendment would add a constitutional ‘right’ to hunt, fish and trap into our
Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash Colorado’s Gun Violence Prevention for Parents & Guardians of K-12 Students (House Bill 25‑1250) requires school districts to post secure firearm storage information on their websites and provide it to parents and guardians at the start of each school year. Colorado Ceasefire is a member of the Colorado Coalition
