Democrats and gun-control activists in Colorado are backing down from a proposal that would have made waiting periods are a requirement when purchasing a gun.
Prior to the start of the 2021 lawmaking term in Colorado, legislators and activists touted a gun control proposal that would have mandated waiting periods for those looking to buy guns. Now, legislators have stopped pushing this proposal and are shelving it for the foreseeable future.
From The Colorado Sun:
State Rep. Steve Woodrow, a Denver Democrat, was slated to be the prime sponsor of the measure. He said the massacre at a Boulder King Soopers reshaped lawmakers’ gun-control plans this year and they decided to focus on other policies.
“After the shooting we worked diligently to craft a package of bills that will have the most impact and that’s the package we’re moving forward with this session,” he said in a written statement.
State Rep. Tom Sullivan, a Centennial Democrat whose son was murdered in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, said the waiting-period bill could be introduced at the Capitol next year.
“It’s a work in progress,” he said. “We’ll keep working on it.”
Other proposals that Sullivan and other Democrats plan to replace the measure with are; raising the minimum age to buy AR-style rifles, a law allowing localities to make stricter gun-control laws than what the state has, preventing those who have certain misdemeanors from buying firearms, creating the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and a measure forcing those charged or convicted of domestic abuse to relinquish their firearms.
