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Colorado governor signs 4 major gun bills, drawing White House applause

Author:     John Frank
Source:     Axios
Publication Date:     Apr 29, 2023
 Link: Colorado governor signs 4 major gun bills, drawing White House applause
Stephan:  

In Florida and Texas, and other Republican-controlled Red states the gun policy is to let anyone with no training walk around as they like carrying a concealed weapon. In the Blue states something quite different is going on. Here’s what just happened in Colorado. What do you think the death by gun violence data from each side of the schism is going to look like? My prediction: death in Red states will go up. In Blue states it will go down.

Gov. Jared Polis signed four gun control bills and hands the pen to Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, parents of Aurora theater shooting victim Jessica Ghawi, at the governor’s office in Colorado on Friday. Credit: Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) on Friday signed into law four major gun measures designed to make it harder to obtain firearms.

Why it matters: The new laws follow multiple high-profile shootings in Colorado in recent months, and represent the latest in a series of recent actions by states to restrict firearm access as gun violence grows.

Driving the news: The legislation expands Colorado’s existing “red flag” law to allow educators, health care professionals, and district attorneys request the seizure of a person’s firearms under an extreme risk protection order.

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