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Two progressive Colorado lawmakers are backing a bill that would prohibit the sale of many semi-automatic weapons.

The Colorado House will consider banning the sale, transfer and importation of so-called assault weapons under a gun bill introduced Tuesday that faces some hurdles to becoming law.

The Colorado House will consider banning the sale, transfer and importation of so-called assault weapons under a gun bill introduced Tuesday that faces some hurdles to becoming law.

The Colorado House will consider banning the sale, transfer and importation of so-called assault weapons under a gun bill introduced Tuesday that faces some hurdles to becoming law.

The Denver City Council on Monday rejected a proclamation that would have added Denver to the growing list of American cities that have called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Denver paid out $39.5 million to resolve large claims, including lawsuits, against the city from 2017 to 2023, with more than a quarter stemming for the 2020 racial justice protests.

Republicans in Colorado make it all too easy.

Decorum in the state legislature sunk to an embarrassing new low this week under the rule of Democrat House Speaker Julie McCluskie. Several dignitaries and family members of some of those kidnapped in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel were denied recognition on the House floor. They were banned b

Democrats in the Colorado legislature are pursuing an array of gun control measures amid growing gun-reform activism -- while Republicans vow to challenge new laws in the courts.

Eleven years ago, Democratic state lawmakers faced protests and recalls over their passage of a high-capacity magazine ban and universal background checks for gun buyers in the wake of the