gun regulations

The Cortez City Council will vote on an ordinance Tuesday night that will determine if a property located on the southwest corner of North Chestnut Street and West Empire Street will be rezoned from residential single family, to residential multi-family. And state lawmakers want to give local authorities the power to outlaw gunfire in densely populated areas.

The Colorado State University Extension is hosting a three-day discussion-based retreat on women in agriculture in the town of Dolores. And Attorney General Phil Weiser said this week he wants to expand Colorado’s red flag gun law.

A gun rights group is taking two more northern Colorado cities to court over firearm restrictions passed in response to the Boulder King Soopers shooting. And a judge in Fort Collins has ordered a legal adviser to former president Donald Trump’s campaign to testify in front of a grand jury.

After last week’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, one Utah lawmaker wants to introduce what he calls modest gun reform.

Colorado lawmakers have passed a bill to ban people from openly carrying guns near polling places. And the League of Women Voters of Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and others are suing the state of Utah over the new Congressional map.

One lawmaker in Utah’s House of Representatives has brought back legislation that would require Utahns to undergo expanded background checks for firearms transfers, but it failed to pass out of committee.

Colorado Democrats advanced a bill last week that would make it a crime to openly carry a gun near a polling center or ballot drop box. And a new study found lesbian, bi-, pan- and a- sexual women in Utah are four times less likely to graduate high school than heterosexual women.

In Colorado, more than 160 new state laws took effect on Tuesday; Diné College has increased the minimum wage to $15 an hour for more than two thirds of its employees.

As part of the efforts, the Treasury Department will inform states that they can use funds allotted by the American Rescue Plan to aid in reducing gun violence.

Legal experts say the state's law is unconstitutional. But it could have a chilling effect on the state's law enforcement officers anyway.