2024

Eight new gun reforms enacted:

• Secure Firearm Storage in a Vehicle – Requires the responsible storage of firearms in vehicles to prevent theft and crime
• Sensitive Spaces – Prohibits firearms in sensitive spaces including  the state Capitol, local elected officials’ offices and meeting chambers, courts, election sites and schools (from preschools to universities)
• Protection Orders Domestic Violence – Includes firearms relinquishment in temporary domestic violence protection orders
• Standardization of Concealed Carry Training Classes – Requires 8-hour classes that cover handgun safety, gun laws and conflict resolution as well as a live fire demonstration in order to obtain a CCW permit
• Merchant Category Codes – Fights illegal gun sales and trafficking by requiring that credit card companies provide a 4-digit, ‘firearms retailer’ category code on all purchases
• Firearm Excise Tax – Created ballot measure for revenue to support mental health services for veterans and at-risk youth, as well as school security
• Firearms Dealer Requirements and Permits – Gives Colorado greater regulatory oversight of Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers
• Colorado Bureau of Investigation Authority to Investigate Firearms Crimes – Gives the Colorado Bureau of Investigation tools and funding to crack down on illegal gun activity

2023

Six new gun reforms enacted:

• Gun Victims Access to Judicial system – repeals gun industry immunity and creates of a cause of
  action for lawsuits by those harmed by gun violence
• Minimum Age – stablishes a minimum age of 21 for all gun purchases
• ERPO extensions – Adds educators, licensed health professionals, mental health professionals,
  the attorney general, district attorneys and city attorneys as petitioners
• Waiting Period for gun transfers – 3 days
• Domestic Violence cases in municipal courts must follow firearm relinquishment procedures of
  district and county courts
• Ghost guns – bans unserialized firearms and establishes a felony for possession of a machine
  gun converter kit

2022

Two new gun reforms enacted:

• Vote without Fear – prohibits openly carried firearms within 100 ft of a ballot drop-off box or
  election site
• POWPO fix – returns over 60 felony crimes to being POWPO eligible (POWPO: possession of
  weapon by previous offender)
• 100% of political committee contributions went to winning candidates.

2021

Six new gun reforms enacted:

• Safe Storage – gun owners must securely store firearms so they are inaccessible to juveniles and
  prohibited individual
• Reporting Lost and Stolen Firearms – must report to law enforcement within five days
• Domestic Violence Relinquishment Enhancements
• Expanded Background Checks – prohibits purchase of guns by those convicted of violent
  misdemeanors within past 5 years; requires purchaser to successfully pass a background before
  gun transfer (i.e., closes the Charleston loophole)
• Empowers local governments to pass stronger gun laws than state or federal laws

2019

• ERPO passed by House (38-25) and Senate (18-17). Governor signed into law. Allows household members and law enforcement to petition the courts to suspend access to firearms by those dangerous to self or others.

2018

• Initiated Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO) bill. Passed house 37-23. Failed in Senate.
• Election: 90% of PAC monies went to winning candidates in game changer election.

2016

• Held forum on Extreme Risk Protection Orders with Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence and Mental Health Colorado primarily for law enforcement, prosecutors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other therapists.

2015

• Formed Colorado Ceasefire Outreach – educational branch (501(c)3)

2013

• Five new gun regulations enacted:
  • Universal Background Checks
  • Gun buyer pays for the Background Check (instead of taxpayer)
  • Ban on High Capacity Magazines
  • Domestic Violence Surrender of Firearms
  • In-person training required for CCW permit
• Successfully worked for defeat of 9 bad bills.
• Worked tirelessly against the recalls. Two senators recalled, another resigned over bills.

2012

• Election: 97% of political committee contributions went to winning candidates.
• Ceasefire PAC mailed out supportive information for John Buckner, who unseated an incumbent
  with 54% of the votes.
• Convened meeting of gun violence prevention advocates 4 days after Aurora shooting.
• Stakeholders monthly meetings (Ceasefire lobbyist initiated)– consensus set of bills 12/14

2010

• Repealed sunset of “deny on arrest” provision in CBI background checks. The sunset would have
  allowed the 2000 measure to expire. Persons who are under arrest for a prohibitive crime can
  not purchase guns.

2007

• Tightened reciprocity rules on Concealed Carry (CCW) permits. Reciprocity rules allow persons
  from other states with CCW permits to carry concealed in Colorado. For a new Colorado
  resident, an out-of-state permit is only valid for the first 90 days of their residence here.

2006

• Ceasefire PAC successfully defeated NRA lobbyist running for HD1 through powerful door-to-
  door leafletting.

2003

• Concealed Carry shall issue law enacted – requiring sheriffs to grant permits to carry hidden
  handguns to any person legal to possess a firearm. Training class required.
• Preemption enacted – prohibits any municipality or county from enacting gun laws stronger than either federal or state laws. Denver sued and won a partial waiver from the preemption.

2002

• Formed 501(c)4 arm for advocacy at the capitol.
• Law enacted to require clerks of courts to transfer information on adjudicated mentally ill to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. NRA fought it.

2000

• General Assembly defeats bill to Close the Gun Show Loophole.
• SAFE Colorado takes initiative to Close the Gun Show Loophole to the voters …wins 70%-30%
• Colorado Ceasefire forms as a Political Action Committee (originally called Colorado GAP) to
  unseat those legislators responsible for defeating common sense gun laws.
• Ceasefire had a hand in turning 6 seats at the legislature. First Democratic Senate in 40 years.

Defensive Work

Some of the bad bills we have defeated (many of these come up year after year)

• Stand Your Ground (business)
• Allowing people without permits to carry a concealed weapon
• Guns in Schools
• Arm Felons
• Allow people with CCW permits to skip Background Checks for gun transfers
• Repeal of High-Capacity Magazine Ban of 2013
• Repeal of Universal Background Checks
• Ease process for Machine Gun and Silencer Certificates              
• Bills to override federal gun laws. This is not possible because of the Supremacy Clause of the
  US Constitution.