Tag: Assault Weapons Ban

This may sound perverse, but I’m sort of glad that Donald Trump has done the traditional cave on gun-safety legislation. It took him a...

UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect Erik Underwood's position on a 2013 Colorado gun law. Following the slaughter of 17 people at a...

Poll results released late Wednesday by Public Policy Polling reported Colorado voters favor banning assault weapons, with 58 percent supporting a ban and 35 percent opposing. Those survey results are supported by results released the same day by Quinnipiac University, The New York Times and CBS, which reported that 58 percent of likely Colorado voters also favor a national ban on high-capacity clips and magazines.

In recent weeks more than 60 people — including seven police officers — have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.