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Posts Tagged Gun Control

Concealed carry passes House; heads to Senate

By | 03.02.11 | 11:37 am

HB 1205, allowing individuals to carry concealed handguns without a permit passed the House today 40-25, but not before members got a history lesson from Rep. Wes McKinnley, D-Walsh.

Democrats work to shoot down concealed carry–but fail, so far anyway

By | 03.02.11 | 7:18 am

House Democrats argued for over an hour against a bill that would allow Coloradans who can legally carry a handgun to also conceal that weapon. Democrats predicted a more dangerous world if the bill were to become law.

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No permit needed to conceal carry at private schools, says House Judicial committee

By | 02.25.11 | 6:10 am

With the help of a female model packing heat, the bill that could allow Coloradans to conceal their handguns without permit on private K-12 school grounds and across most other areas of Colorado passed out of a House committee Thursday with bipartisan support.

Wildlife group: Cull elk at national park with wolves, not sharpshooters

By | 01.28.09 | 4:49 pm

An environmental group called on the Department of the Interior to cease fire on a plan to use volunteer sharpshooters to reduce elk herds in Rocky Mountain National Park, instead urging officials to release wolves into the park “as part of the long-term solution to the elk over-browsing problem.”

‘You’ll shoot your eye out.’ Talking about guns at Christmastime

By | 12.24.08 | 1:13 pm

The onslaught of the 24-hour A Christmas Story marathon on cable television tomorrow raises an interesting contemporary question: when is a Second Amendment-protected firearm just a gun and when does it become a much bigger threat to public safety?

Obama and McCain on the issues

By | 09.08.08 | 2:15 pm

With Barack Obama and John McCain less than three weeks away from their first presidential debate, Stateline.org, a nonpartisan online news site, has come up with a virtual tete-a-tete between the two candidates.

Don’t Ask The Sheriff To Make Your Day

By | 11.28.07 | 12:38 pm

Can you pull a gun on a sheriff’s deputy delivering legal papers to you if he enters your house without a warrant? A unanimous Colorado Supreme Court held Monday that a jury will decide that question after hearing all