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Kopel: The pro-slavery origins of American gun control
The New York Times has recently unveiled a “1619 project” that will, in the words of New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay, demonstrate “that nearly everything that has made America...
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Greenlee: ‘Safe storage’ gun laws unnecessary and unconstitutional
Among the measures being considered by Colorado Democrats for the 2020 legislative session is a so-called “safe storage” law requiring that firearms be locked in a safe when not in use. Like many gun...
View ArticleComplete Colorado is looking for sources on first-time gun owners
Gun sales in Colorado have been surging since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, and little doubt many of those buyers are existing gun owners adding to their collection, but what about...
View ArticleColorado’s booming gun sales lead to long wait times, ammo shortages;...
DENVER–Colorado is experiencing a rush to buy guns and ammunition created by concerns over COVID-19 lockdowns and ongoing civil disorder nationwide. Since January, monthly gun sales in Colorado have...
View ArticleConcealed carry of firearms growing nationwide; over a half million...
ALEXANDRIA, VA–A new report just released by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) says lawful concealed carry of firearms continues to grow at an exponential rate even as issuance of concealed...
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CD3 candidate Diane Mitsch Bush earns endorsements from hard-core gun control...
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS–While 3rd Congressional District candidate Diane Mitsch Bush makes no mention of her well-established anti-gun stance on her campaign website, she has none the less earned the...
View ArticleArmstrong: Democrats’ hypocrisy on gun waiting periods
The word is that Colorado Democrats will run a bill this year to mandate a waiting period for gun purchases. If we believe that people have rights, including to the right to self-defense, then such a...
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Caldara: Legislature gunning for your civil liberties
I enjoy target shooting. I’ve had my eye on a 9 mm pistol manufactured by a company called Springfield. When I went to buy it, I found it was banned in Colorado. The online retail site posted, “not for...
View ArticleLittleton enacts unprecedented storage mandate for gun dealers; store owner...
LITTLETON–The Littleton City Council on Feb 2 enacted an unprecedented gun storage ordinance that requires both wholesale and retail firearms sellers, gunsmiths and pawnbrokers to obtain a “firearm...
View ArticleBoulder’s gun ban ordinance struck down; state preemption, constitutional...
BOULDER–A Boulder District Court judge has struck down the City of Boulder’s anti-gun ordinance that made the possession, sale or transfer of semi-automatic, magazine-fed sporting rifles, pistols and...
View ArticleArmstrong: Gun storage bill misses its target
Safe storage of firearms—who could be against that? No one, obviously, when storage actually increases net safety. So why did Colorado House Republicans spend ten hours opposing the measure, House Bill...
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Caldara: Schools should be prepared for a return of violence
There has been only been one benefit from the absence of in-person education over the last year. There have been no school shootings. When school comes back in the fall there could be a horrific rash...
View ArticleJason Crow, MSNBC host conflate sporting rifles with military weapons, blame...
DENVER–Colorado Congressman Jason Crow, D-Aurora took advantage Wednesday of the horrific murders of 10 people in Boulder to appear on the left-leaning MSNBC’s “ReidOut” with host Joy Reid to say...
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Caldara: Boulder shooting hit close to home
The mass shooting in Boulder took place just up the street from where I live. It happened at the very King Soopers where my family and I shop at several times a week. We’ve become rather close to...
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Caldara: Why did police wait in Boulder?
From the president of the United States to the media echo-chamber to every person in my hometown of Boulder, we all agree. Officer Eric Talley is a hero for rushing in to engage the mass shooter in my...
View ArticleNew law regulating storage of guns in the home constitutionally questionable,...
DENVER–Governor Polis signed the recently passed “Safe Storage of Firearms” bill into law April 19. The new law imposes criminal penalties on gun owners who fail to store their firearms “in a locked...
View ArticleBill granting ‘local control’ over guns allows only stricter regulation;...
DENVER–A little more than a month after the tragic mass shooting at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, legislative Democrats introduced Senate Bill 21-256 in an attempt to reverse decades of...
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Sharf: So-called ‘local control’ gun bill penalizes those most at risk
Several weeks ago, my wife and I were in New York City. While we were there, the rising tide of anti-Semitism made itself felt in a most forceful way. At E. 51st St. and 3rd Ave., just east of Midtown...
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Fogleman: Democrats’ gun control bill steps backward on justice reform
Several sweeping sweeping criminal justice reform bills have been passed in back-to-back Colorado legislative sessions. Democratic lawmakers claim to be addressing the issue of disparate outcomes faced...
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Danaher: We need more like Eric Talley and Johnny Hurley
In 1918 Father Edward Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, saw Rueben Granger carrying Howard Loomis on his back. Loomis suffered from Polio and had been abandoned at Boys Town the year before. Thinking...
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