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
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
