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Colorado Senate Committee Considers Expanding Gun Control
Senate Bill 26-004 aims to add institutions like schools and health facilities as petitioners for Extreme Risk Protection Orders, with 80% of petitions granted last year, per state data.
- On Jan. 14, Sen. Tom Sullivan, D-Centennial, and Rep. Meg Froelich, D-Englewood, introduced Senate Bill 26-004 to let health care, behavioral-health facilities, schools, and colleges petition for ERPOs, with a hearing Tuesday.
- Sponsors say institutional petitioners sought the change, prompting collaboration with the Colorado Attorney General's office, while lawmakers cite 164 ERPO petitions in 2024 with 80.27% granted.
- Last session, Sullivan and Froelich backed a high-profile firearms restriction signed last April, effective Aug. 1, and Sullivan called ERPO work `a vital, life-saving priority`.
- Opponents argue the measure violates the Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments and urge testimony against the bill, with Laugesen calling it `a total lack of due process` at Tuesday's hearing.
- The debate frames the change as a due-process and medical-privacy issue, with critics saying Colorado gun owners deserve equal protections and citing the United States Supreme Court on Second Amendment rights.
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