DENVER — Colorado has responded to mass shootings with a series of gun control laws passed by state Democrats, but several are held up in federal court.
Democratic leadership in April saw new gun laws as protection.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed four bills into law: requiring a three-day waiting period to buy a gun, raising the age limit to purchase a gun to 21, expanding the state's red flag laws, and making it easier for victims of gun violence to sue the firearms industry.
That moment for celebration at the state capitol is viewed as an attack by a no-compromises gun advocacy group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO).
The far-right group has sued multiple times over gun control measures passed at the local and state level, stopping them from taking effect.
RMGO sued Boulder, Superior, Louisville and Boulder County last year for their bans on so-called assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. As that case continues, those bans still can't be enforced.
"It's very frustrating that as we try to do these measures to reduce those guns deaths that there are lawsuits filed against these very reasonable common sense gun measures," Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett said.
Brockett and his city responded with new gun control measures after 10 people were killed at a King Soopers in 2021.
Last week, parties in the case asked a federal judge to make a decision without taking this to trial. It could be months before any decision is made.
"It's incredibly frustrating right. Like we passed these measures because of the death of 10 precious community members in the King Soopers horrific shooting," Brockett said.
State lawmakers passed its own gun laws this spring. RMGO sued again to challenge the law that raised the age limit to buy guns.
In August, a federal judge temporarily blocked that new law too.
Up in Boulder, Brockett knew gun control measures would be tested in the courts.
"I am very proud of that that our council unanimously opted to pass this strong set of gun violence prevention measures," Brockett said.
Next week, a federal court could block another gun control law. RMGO filed another lawsuit this month to fight Colorado's three-day waiting period to buy a gun.
They said it left people vulnerable to life-or-death situations. RMGO said this law violated the Second Amendment by imposing unnecessary delays on law-abiding citizens seeking to exercise their right to bear arms.
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