Colorado Senate Assistant Minority Leader Lisa Frizell (R-Castle Rock), the former Douglas County assessor elected to the Senate in 2024 after two terms as a state representative, reflected on her time at the legislature during this week’s Women of Influence Luncheon hosted by the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce. Approximately 50 women and two men enjoyed the $40 a plate — $50 for nonmembers — event at the Olinger Andrews Caldwell Gibson funeral home.
In addition to bills looking to regulate data centers and AI, this session the Colorado legislature is also taking on bills related to digital surveillance, raising concerns from unlikely allies: pro-gun groups and abortion advocates. This week, the Colorado House Judiciary Committee voted to indefinitely postpone House Bill 1108, which would have authorized the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to access the FBI’s fingerprint search service, allowing authorized agencies to receive notification of activity on individuals who have submitted to a background check.
Following a week of gun violence that included the public assassination of a conservative activist and a shooting at Evergreen High School that injured two students, gun enthusiasts took part in the “33rd Annual Front Range Freedom Shoot” at Dragonman’s range complex east of Colorado Springs. The two-day event was described as a “next-level range day focused on keeping the 2A [Second Amendment] community in Colorado alive.”
Last week, reports circulated that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering a rule change that would ban transgender people from owning firearms. But the idea has garnered criticism from gun advocates both in Colorado and nationally, with one saying such a ban would be "flagrantly illegal."
Colorado GOP chair Kristi Burton Brown says selecting a venue for this Saturday’s Republican state assembly forced her to make a difficult choice between two evils for principled conservatives: banning guns or having to share vaccine status.
On a Colorado talk radio show Tuesday, former GOP House Minority Leader Patrick Neville (R-Castle Rock) lambasted a bill that would modify background check requirements for firearm purchases, exchanges, and transfers.
Approximately two hundred people rallied at the state Capitol Saturday against Colorado’s new “red flag” law, which allows guns to be taken from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.
Explaining her reasons for supporting a recall of Colorado State Rep. Tom Sullivan (D-Aurora), Arapahoe Republican Party Vice Chair Brenda Stokes told CBS4’s Rick Sallinger last week that Sullivan politicized his son’s murder.
Thursday night, House Republican leader Patrick Neville stood before a room of Rocky Mountain Gun Owner members and pledged to support their efforts to recall his colleagues, not just with a public statement, but by providing the campaign’s “infrastructure.”
Colorado state representative Steve Humphrey (R-Severance) shared a photo of a flyer that accuses his party’s Assistant Minority Leader, Rep Cole Wist (R-Centennial) of wanting to prevent women from being able to defend themselves.
