It’s Gun Violence Awareness Month, and this Friday is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. There are lots of things you can do and ways you can get involved: You can also join the fight in Colorado! Help spread the message by finding and sharing our posts on Facebook, Instagram, X, and Bluesky!
Last week in Scottsbluff, a dog ‘accidentally’ shot a bystander with a shotgun that was left, loaded, unsecured, and safety off, on the seat of a truck when its owner stepped into a convenience store. Such incidents happen with surprising frequency—in fact, according to our friends at Armed With Reason, it happens more often than
Gary Walker Jones/Unsplash CPR News reported that gun sales are way down in Colorado—the lowest, in fact, since 2014—mirroring national trends and perhaps finally marking an end to the Pandemic buying rush. In 2025, there were 314,904 approved background checks for firearm purchases, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. CPR says it’s the lowest
More than 1,000 people died in murder-suicides in America in 2025. Ninety-two percent of the killers were male, 87 percent of the killers used a gun, and 65 percent involved an intimate partner, according to the ninth edition of the Violence Policy Center (VPC) study American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. Among the findings:
As you probably already know, the U.S. Department of Justice this month filed two lawsuits in Colorado—one against the City of Denver and one against the State—targeting an assault weapons ban and a high-capacity magazine ban, respectively. The AW ban was passed in Denver in 1989, and the state high-capacity magazine ban passed in 2013.
The 2026 Colorado Legislature adjourned last Wednesday, after another strong year for gun violence prevention advocates. Eight bills were passed this year, tying last year’s record, and three have already been signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis. SB26-004, Expand List of Petitioners for ERPO, was arguably the biggest GVP ‘win’ this year. It became
Devin L. Hughes, CFA, is the Founder of GVPedia, Inc. and a noted authority on the gun violence issue. His new book, The Myths we Carry: An Advocate’s Guide to the Gun Debate, is a tight, evidence-based look at gun violence in the U.S. and the disingenuous tactics used by the gun lobby to protect
Gary Walker Jones/Unsplash For the second time in two days, the Trump Administration has filed suit against a decades-old gun violence prevention law in our state. On Wednesday, The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the State of Colorado over the high-capacity magazine ban passed after the 2012 Aurora Theater Shooting. That shooter fired
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on April 23 released more than 600 pages of investigative documents on last year’s Evergreen High School shooting, after months of complaints about a lack of transparency. The JCSO said it wished to disclose as much as possible partly as a response to lessons learned from the 1999 Columbine Shooting,
Right before filing suit against Denver, the U.S. Department of Justice rolled back several gun regulations, including reinstating the so-called ‘gun show loophole,’ which allowed people at gun shows to buy firearms without a background check. The change is meaningless in Colorado, where voters officially closed the loophole in November 2000 by approving Amendment 22
