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Blogs
March 21, 2013
NRA takes aim at Colorado's 2014 election
It should be all hearts and flowers when Governor John Hickenlooper signs the civil unions bill at History Colorado this afternoon. But we're betting that this historic moment will also have a history-making amount of security, given the vehement response to Hickenlooper's signing of three gun measu ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2013
Gun laws unenforceable, but El Paso sheriff says he'll still try to enforce them
During recent months, numerous sheriffs, including Larimer County's Justin Smith and Weld County's John Cooke, have ripped proposed gun-control measures before the Colorado legislature. El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa has been critical of such efforts, too. But his office is upset at local medi ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Video: Rachel Maddow show reports about newspaper's threat against gun-control backer
As we've reported, the debate over Colorado gun-control legislation has gotten ugly, with the most prominent example being executive Franklin Sain's arrest for racist and sexist e-mails sent to Representative Rhonda Fields, whose son was a murder victim. The negative PR garnered by Sain hasn't stop ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Marijuana: Eric Holder says fed response to Colorado law coming soon
Yesterday, eight former DEA administrators sent a letter to ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee (see it below), encouraging them to quiz U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about why the Justice Department hasn't cracked down on Colorado and Washington state over their recently passed ma ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2013
Gun control: Senator Morgan Carroll on disruption at Aurora town hall
The debate over gun control continues to get ugly. The same week Franklin Sain was arrested for sending Representative Rhonda Fields allegedly harassing, racist e-mails vocal, pro-gun audience members at an Aurora Town Hall meeting antagonized Senator Morgan Carroll, who felt the need for a securit ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
Marijuana: Maryland pot decriminalization bill latest example of Amendment 64's impact
Yesterday, we highlighted a Pennsylvania proposal that mirrors Amendment 64, the Colorado measure whose proponents see as a template for nationwide marijuana reform. Today, a Maryland bill to decriminalize pot is the latest example of other states following in Colorado's footsteps -- but perhaps mov ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
Marijuana: Obama administration has done poor job of talking about drug policy, czar says
Just over two months since the signing of Amendment 64, a direct challenge to federal marijuana policy, the Obama administration still has provided no guidance to Colorado about whether a challenge to the law is forthcoming. As a result, observers searching for clues about the feds' thinking are lef ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2013
Marijuana legalization proposal like Colorado's coming to Pennsylvania: More states to follow?
Following Amendment 64's passage, marijuana reformers have pushed for similar measures beyond Colorado's borders -- the idea being that if cannabis is legalized in more states, the federal government will have to change policies making pot illegal under all circumstances. That's precisely what's hap ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2013
Weld County commissioners really, really like the Second Amendment
Last week, we noted that Weld County Sheriff John Cooke was among several Colorado sheriffs raising constitutional concerns about potential gun-control measures. Now, the Weld Count Commissioners have pulled a similar trigger, passing a resolution -- read it below -- expressing their support for the ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2013
Gun legislation: Claire Levy's bill would enact real-time data transfer of mental-health records
As the debate around gun policy and mental health heats up in Colorado and across the country, Representative Claire Levy, a Boulder Democrat, is pushing forward with a bill that she says would help keep weapons out of the hands of the wrong people. The legislation would establish real-time data tra ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2013
Guns in Colorado public schools? GOP politicians want concealed handguns in class
Since the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, lawmakers across the country have been debating what policy solutions could help reduce the risk of a devastating massacre in the future. In Colorado, some Democratic legislators have proposed tighter restrictions on access to guns. But a few h ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2013
Marijuana: Obama drug czar cites "serious national conversation" about legalization
Since the passage and signing of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, Coloradans and folks for and against policy reform nationwide have waited for word as to whether the federal government will block implementation of the law. The latest clue to the feds' approach comes in a lett ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2013
Rifle giveway: Rocky Mountain Gun Owners' Dudley Brown wants to arm you for a legal fight
As lawmakers head to the State Capitol for opening day of the Colorado Legislature, critics are already taking aim at new gun-control proposals. Some will be rallying outside the building for a 1 p.m. Guns for Everyone event. Others are arming themselves -- literally -- for the legislative battles a ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2013
Gun policy: Rep. Ed Perlmutter appointed vice chair on national violence prevention task force
In the contentious debates on gun policy that are likely to remain at the forefront of national politics in the coming months, Colorado is an important player given its history of tragic mass shootings. And on one national task force dedicated to reducing gun violence, U.S. Representative Ed Perlmut ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2013
Gun policy: On day one, Diana DeGette introduces high-capacity magazine ban
In the final weeks of 2012, Congresswoman Diana DeGette, who represents Denver, pushed for an immediate vote on a measure to ban high-capacity assault magazines. The bill, she said, would be a sign of concrete action after twenty children were slaughtered in Connecticut. But the chance for a vote ne ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2012
Straightforward Shooting sees huge surge of interest in gun classes after Connecticut tragedy
Since the horrific mass shooting in Connecticut that claimed the lives of twenty children, there has been a renewed gun-control debate in Colorado -- along with a record-breaking number of residents looking to buy guns. Now a Littleton business that offers gun classes says it's seeing unprecedented ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2012
Stephen Barton, Aurora victim and gun control advocate, grew up ten minutes from Newtown
Last Friday, Stephen Barton, a survivor of the Aurora theater shooting and now a vocal advocate for stronger gun policies, was back in Colorado, doing outreach work. While in Denver, he heard the news about the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It was hard to compreh ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2012
Tom Tancredo offers his own Colorado Compact on Immigration Fairness
"Does the GOP have a death wish?" That's what former congressman, former gubernatorial candidate and longtime rabble-rouser Tom Tancredo asks, in the wake of a number of Republicans signing off last week on the Colorado Compact on Immigration. Tancredo, who left the Rrepublican Party to run for gov ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2012
Reader: If you need a military assault weapon, you really need a penile implant
Representative Ed Perlmutter wants to introduce gun-control legislation on the first day of the new Congress, and is calling for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban. Representative Diana DeGette wants to pull the trigger on gun control even earlier -- this week, if possible. She's joined with ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2012
Gun control: Ed Perlmutter will introduce assault weapons ban on day one of Congress
In the days following the movie theater massacre in July, Representative Ed Perlmutter, whose district then included Aurora, was one of the few local politicians who called for a gun policy change: the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban. He's been working on that legislation for months, but gi ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2012
Marijuana petition asks Joe Biden not to push for crackdown on Colorado, Washington
The longer the federal government waits to tell Colorado and Washington whether it will allow the states to determine their own marijuana policy after each passed pot-reform measures, the more theories surface about who in the administration might prove to be an impediment. The latest involves Vice ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2012
Gun ban in college buildings?: Boulder rep plans legislation despite court ruling
It just doesn't make sense for lawmakers to allow guns on college campuses, where the risks of suicide or shootings tied to mental health illness can be high. At least that's an argument of Boulder Representative Claire Levy, who is crafting legislation that would add campus buildings to the list of ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2012
Aurora's Steve Hogan: Why didn't he join anti-illegal gun mayors group after theater shooting?
Steve Hogan, mayor of Aurora, the city where Century 16 shooting suspect James Holmes allegedly killed twelve people and injured dozens more, is not joining a nationwide coalition of mayors that supports stricter gun laws. In response, the group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, argues that Hogan should ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2012
CU staffer with gun permit accidentally injures two: First shooting of its kind on state campus?
After winning a long battle to allow those with concealed-carry permits to bring guns onto campuses in Colorado, a gun-rights organization is now responding to what appears to be the first-ever accidental discharge on a local campus from someone with the proper permit. The staffer who fired a shot a ... More >>
News
November 1, 2012
The history of cannabis in Colorado...or how the state went to pot
See also: William Breathes looks back on three years as the country's first pot critic
Blogs
October 17, 2012
Videos: Obama cites Aurora theater shooting in second debate with Romney
Earlier this month, families of Aurora theater shooting victims urged Jim Lehrer, moderator of the presidential debate in Denver, to raise the issue of gun policy in quizzing President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Lehrer didn't do so -- but last night, in the season' ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2012
Marijuana: Why ex-drug warriors hate Amendment 64, other drug initiatives
Former drug czars, DEA administrators and national "addiction experts" have come out in opposition to Colorado's Amendment 64, as well as similar measures before voters in Washington and Oregon. In other wildly-unexpected news: The sky is, indeed, blue.
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Aurora theater shooting: Victims' families ask Jim Lehrer to raise gun policy at debate
In their first group message focused on gun policy, family members of those who died in the Aurora theater shooting have come together to urge presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer to press Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on the topic of firearms violence when the candidates face off in Denver tomor ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2012
Video: Stephen Barton, Aurora theater shooting victim, stars in gun-control ad
Stephen Barton, 22, never thought his future would include gun-policy work. A recent graduate of Syracuse University, Barton was planning on moving to Russia to teach English on a Fulbright Scholarship this September. That all changed when he was shot in the face on July 20 in the Aurora theater mas ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012
Amendment 64 camp on law-enforcement support, teachers union opposition
At noon, proponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, will hold a press event at which two law-enforcement organizations will join previous backers in expressing their support for the measure; get details below. A spokeswoman stresses that the get-together isn't a response to ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2012
Obama in Golden, Colorado: Is the ninth time the charm?
Ninth time's a charm. President Barack Obama was back in Colorado this morning, marking his ninth visit to the state this year and his third campaign stop here in just three weeks. The crowd of thousands flocking to Golden -- and the surrounding traffic jams and street closures -- served as yet an ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2012
Gun-free CU-Boulder dorms are target areas for criminals, student group says
While some professors are not happy with a policy change that allows students with concealed-carry permits at CU-Boulder to bring guns into their classes, one gun-rights organization has an opposite concern. The most unsafe place on campus, according to Students for Concealed Carry, is the one place ... More >>
Blogs
August 22, 2012
CU profs can't cancel classes if student is legally carrying a gun, administrator says
Earlier this week, we told you about CU-Boulder's new regs concerning concealed-carry permits -- changes necessitated by a Colorado Supreme Court ruling allowing them on campus two years after the university added Nerf guns to its banned weapons list. Shortly thereafter, one professor said he'd canc ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2012
Gun control activists: 1000s of mental health records going unreported to FBI
Since James Holmes killed twelve people in Aurora, catalyzing heated gun control debates across the country, many have focused their attention on the suspect's past psychiatric care. As officials debate what can be done to keep guns out of the hands of those with a history of mental illness, a new r ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2012
Michael Hancock: Aurora shootings shouldn't be used to push gun control
Since James Holmes purchased an AR-15 assault rifle and shot twelve people dead in an Aurora movie theater, we've asked different local officials if they think stricter gun control laws could help prevent this kind of tragedy in the future. Recently, Denver mayor Michael Hancock told us that he woul ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2012
Denver police chief Robert White pushes for progress on gun control
Speaking one week after a former Denver resident shot six people dead in Wisconsin, and less than a month after James Holmes killed twelve and injured dozens more in Aurora, Denver police chief Robert White told Westword it's time to make progress on gun control. We spoke with White over the weekend ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2012
Gun control ad in Denver pressures Obama and Romney to take a stand
The same day Barack Obama made several campaign stops in Colorado, a national gun control group launched an advertisement in Denver calling on both the president and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney to put forth a plan to curb gun violence across the country. The spot, which references t ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2012
Aurora theater shooting: Dick Lamm not optimistic about reforms to gun policy
Since James Holmes fired shots into an Aurora movie theater -- after purchasing four guns in two months and 6,000 rounds of ammunition off the Internet -- heated gun control debates have emerged nationally and locally, with elected officials questioning whether stricter laws could have stopped thi ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2012
Aurora theater shooting: Colorado members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns respond to tragedy
The heated gun control debates that have emerged in response to the Aurora theater shooting that left twelve dead have reached elected officials at all different levels of government -- whether they want to talk about it or not. Since Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, arguably the most prominent Colorad ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2012
Aurora theater shooting: Latino officials backing Obama respond to gun control debate
The thorny political territory of gun control can be especially challenging for President Barack Obama's cheerleaders in Colorado, where debates about access to guns have great local significance after James Holmes shot seventy people in an Aurora movie theater. Since the attack, Obama has called fo ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
Aurora theater shooting: Ed Perlmutter and the challenge of talking about gun control
When asked about gun laws on Sunday -- two days after James Holmes fired shots into an Aurora movie theater in one of the largest mass shootings in American history -- Representative Ed Perlmutter backed reinstatement of the assaults weapon ban. The comments, on live national TV, made him one of the ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
Marijuana: George Soros link to Amendment 64 claimed, disputed
Billionaire George Soros is a frequent conservative target for donating big bucks to liberal causes (of course, conservatives have munificent billionaires of their own -- but that's another story). Now, Smart Colorado, a group opposing Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, sees Sor ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
Aurora theater shooting: Gun sales surge predictable -- but will it last?
Colorado dealers turned in 40 percent more background check requests for gun purchasers in the four days after the Aurora theater shootings than they did the previous weekend, a spike in gun sales similar to previous runs after other mass killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School attack, ac ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
Aurora theater shooting: Michael Hancock declines to speak out on gun control
Days after accused gunman James Holmes fired shots at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, there have been heated discussions about gun control, along with debates on whether it is an appropriate time to tackle the subject. We gave Denver Mayor Michael Hancock an opportunity to wei ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2012
Aurora shooting: Tom Mauser, Columbine father, on gun control, political silence
It's not about politics, it's about the tens of thousands of people who die every year in America due to gun violence -- including the twelve victims of the Aurora theater shootings. This is how Tom Mauser, father of a Columbine victim and now activist for gun control, responds to politicians and ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2012
James Holmes's tactical gear provider accused of having "blood on its hands"
After some of the equipment belonging to Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes was traced back to a Chesterfield, Missouri company called Tactical Gear, reps spoke out about the ties online. Since then, as noted by our eagle-eyed sister blog at St. Louis' Riverfront Times, Tactical Gear emplo ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2012
Aurora theater shooting prompts volleys from pro-gun, anti-gun forces
Whenever there's a shocking example of firearm mayhem like the shootings at the Aurora Century 16 theater, it doesn't take long for those on either side of the pistol-availability argument to start trying to make ideological points. Prime examples: Texas Representative Louie Gohmert, who wondered wh ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2012
Immigration: Local activists praise, criticize Supreme Court's Arizona ruling
Today, the United States Supreme Court rejected three of four core provisions in Arizona's controversial immigration law -- but allowed the most hotly contested to remain. It is still legal for state police to stop, interview and detain people they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe entered the ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2012
Marijuana prohibition's end would unite police, community, advocate says
Tonight, Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore narcotics cop who's now the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, aka LEAP, will be speaking in Denver (details below) about ending marijuana prohibition in Colorado. If that happened, he believes, "it would be very significant in reu ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Reader: Josephine Echols' tragic murder reflects poorly on gun laws
The man who allegedly killed Josephine Echols outside her pastor-son's church this past Sunday was himself gunned down by an off-duty Denver Police officer, likely preventing further bloodshed. As such, the story that offers something to gun-rights activists and those who see these weapons as causin ... More >>
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