Bill Limiting Gun Sales To People Convicted Of Violent Misdemeanors Moves Forward
Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Flowers, signs and mementos hang along a fence outside a King Supers grocery store in Boulder on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, after 10 people, including a Boulder Police officer, were killed there days earlier. The first of three bills introduced after the mass shooting at a King Soopers in Boulder cleared its first committee late Wednesday night. If it becomes law, the bill would prevent people from buying a firearm for five years after being convicted of certain violent misdemeanors, including some crimes of child abuse, sexual assault, cruelty to animals, and violat...