After recording one of its lowest homicide totals last year (35), Denver is still ‘off track’ towards its goal of reducing gun-related homicides by 10% and shootings in ‘high-risk’ neighborhoods by 20%, Mayor Mike Johnston said last week. Gun homicides are flat from last year, Johnston said, but shootings in ‘high risk’ neighborhoods have gone
After its threats to do so were dismissed by City leaders, the Trump administration sued the city of Denver on Tuesday over the city’s assault weapons ban, one day before suing the state over its high-capacity magazine law. The 37-year-old law violates the 2nd Amendment, the Department of Justice said in its complaint. The local
Brady issued a memo on April 2 lauding the role gun laws have played in the recent drop in violent crimes. Among the statistics the group cited: However, the group warns, there is still far too much gun violence in America: “Gun crime is falling in America—and that didn’t happen by chance, the memo says.
Last weekend’s killings of eight children and wounding of two women in Shreveport, L.A., has focused attention on the fact that Louisiana legislators have defeated ERPO laws multiple times. The shootings are believed to be an act of domestic violence; seven of the children were the killer’s, and the two women are described as his
The FMDA “Free Men Don’t Ask,” a popular 3D-Printed ‘ghost gun’ frame that accepts a standard Glock barrel The Colorado House continues to lay over (delay further debate on, but not outright kill) (SB26-043, Record Keeping & Regulation of Sale of Firearm Barrel. The bill requires firearm barrels to be sold or transferred in person
Photo by Chris Lynch on Unsplash Great exploration of suicide prevention, including Donna’s Law, on this episode of the ‘Back from the Abyss’ podcast. Donna’s Law, the voluntary do-not-sell firearms waiver, allows people to ‘opt-in’ to a do-not-sell list with the NICS background check system so they can protect themselves, their families, and their communities.
Faced with the threat of a veto by Gov. Jared Polis, sponsors of HB26-1144, Prohibit Three-Dimensional Printing Firearms & Components, removed a provision that would have prohibited the distribution of digital instructions on how to make the weapons. The bill’s sponsors said they were told making the change was necessary to avoid a veto from
Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed SB26-011, Search Warrants Provided to Covered Platforms, requiring social media companies to acknowledge and respond to search warrants promptly. The bill is a changed version of one Polis vetoed last year, which was proposed in response to difficulties law enforcement encountered trying to obtain information from social media companies
Photo by Pascal Bernardon on Unsplash Have even our neighbors to the North found some sort of limit to their Gun Lobby kowtowing? Wyoming lawmakers failed to override Gov. Mark Gordon’s veto of controversial changes to a Wyoming gun law that restricts the enforcement of federal gun orders. Gordon vetoed amendments to Wyoming’s Second Amendment
Without making much noise about it, the Trump Administration is continuing to give gun rights back to convicted felons—including, most recently, an indicted ‘fake elector.’ Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman was indicted in 2024 for being a fake elector in 2020, and was one of dozens of people President Trump pardoned in November. He and
