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The Colorado bill comes after independent liquor stores said they are struggling after voters approved beer and wine in grocery stores.

Chris Fine, executive director of the Colorado Licensed Beverage Association, said his group estimates that one in every four — or maybe even one in every three — of Colorado’s approximately 1,600 independent liquor stores could close as a result of the legislation and ballot issue. That would mean 400 to 600 shuttered retailers.

Few shots are ever heard at the busy northwest Longmont intersection of Hover Street and 17th Avenue. And yet it's a battlefield in a larger statewide war.

It's been just over seven months since certain grocery and convenience stores were allowed to add wine to their shelves. Here's how it's going.

Local liquor retailers haven't had to drown their sorrows yet as the hotly-debated proposition for wine in grocery stores hangs onto its narrow lead.