Legislative Briefing - March 20, 2025
Below is the latest update on every gun-related bill moving through the State Legislature.
With your support, the Colorado State Shooting Association (the official state association of the NRA) will never stop fighting for the Second Amendment in Colorado. You can become a member and/or donate here or at the bottom of this email.
HB25-1258: “Scientific Wildlife Management” - Thanks to your support fighting this anti-hunting proposal, this bill was killed in the House Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Committee on March 6th. This serves as an important reminder that when we band together and mobilize, we can go toe-to-toe with the gun grabbers and win. Thank you!
SB25-003: The 2025 Semi-Auto Firearm Ban and Gun Owner Registry would restrict access to nearly every semi-automatic firearm that accepts a detachable magazine. This bill passed the House Appropriations Committee on March 18th and will next be debated and voted on by the Committee of the Whole on the House floor.
Sign our petition demanding Governor Polis veto this bill. Please also reach out to him directly, urging him to veto this bill at (303) 866-2471 and Governorpolis@state.co.us.
HB25-1133: The Requirements for Sale of Ammunition bill would:
Require ammunition sellers to control access to ammunition during in-person transactions. Note: this will be burdensome for retailers who display ammunition in their stores and at gun shows, and is only an early attack in what will likely become an ongoing onslaught against the sale of ammunition in Colorado.
Increase the age to purchase any kind of ammunition to 21 years old.
Add new requirements for shipping ammunition to customers.
This bill passed the Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee on March 18th and will next be debated and voted on by the Senate Committee of the Whole on the Senate floor. Follow this link to find your Senator and urge him or her to oppose this bill. Also, please use this link to contact every Democratic Senator, urging a NO vote on this legislation.
HB25-1238: Gun Show Requirements - This bill would:
Require ALL table vendors at gun shows to have an FFL and state firearm permit.
Prohibit anyone under 21, including combat veterans, from entering a gun show without parental supervision.
Impose an entangled web of new compliance burdens on gun show promoters under threat of being prohibited from organizing gun shows in the future.
This bill passed the Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee on March 18th and will next be debated and voted on by the Senate Committee of the Whole on the Senate floor. Follow this link to find your Senator and urge him or her to oppose this bill. Please also use this link to contact every Democratic Senator, urging a NO vote on this legislation.
HB25-1250: “Gun Violence Prevention & Parents of Students” - This bill requires schools to distribute anti-gun propaganda to all students and parents under the guise of “gun violence prevention.” It passed its third and final vote in the State House yesterday and will now go to the Senate. Follow this link to find your Senator and urge him or her to oppose this bill. Please also use this link to contact every Democratic Senator, urging a NO vote on this legislation.
HB25-1225: “Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act” - This horrible bill infringes on both the First and Second Amendment by prohibiting you from open carrying a firearm while engaging in political speech. It would make it an unlawful action to open carry a firearm while canvassing or collecting petition signatures — important civil activities that put canvassers and signature gatherers in rather vulnerable situations that warrant means of self-defense. This bill passed the House State, Civic, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee on March 17th and will now go to the House floor for debate among the whole chamber. Follow this link to find your Representative and urge him or her to oppose this bill. Please also use this link to contact every Democratic Representative, urging a NO vote on this legislation.
HB25-1262: Regulate Private Security Officers & Agencies - This bill creates a new governing body to dictate who can and can’t do business in private security, and implements a lengthy and burdensome bureaucratic process security guards must go through before they can carry a firearm in their professional role. It is scheduled for a hearing in the House Business Affairs & Labor Committee on Thursday, March 27th at 1:30 PM. Follow this link to sign up and testify in opposition.
SB25-158: “State Agency Procurement & Disposal Certain Items” - Upon reading this legislation, anyone will find that the “certain items” referred to in the title are in fact guns, ammo, and firearm accessories. This measure will:
Make the process of selling firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories to law enforcement agencies in Colorado more burdensome for FFLs.
Require law enforcement agencies to destroy and dispose of surplus firearms and other firearms in their possession that are not considered evidence, eliminating a source of firearms for the private market.
We are opposed to this legislation. It passed the Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee on March 4th and will go to the Senate Appropriations Committee next. View and contact the committee members here.
SB25-034: This self-red flag bill would create a Voluntary Do-Not-Sell Firearms Waiver that interested parties can fill out and submit to the state, rendering themselves prohibited persons — a decision one might want to reverse in the future. One major problem with this bill is that getting onto the list is easy, but getting off of it (if the person in question so desires) requires state approval. Of course that’s no surprise: governments aren’t particularly known for their willingness to give freedoms back after they’ve managed to revoke them — even if they were handed over voluntarily. This bill passed the Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee on February 6th and will now go to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Its next hearing has not been scheduled yet. View and contact the committee members here.
SB25-059: “Supports for State Response to Mass Shootings” is an attempt to offset the revenue the gun grabbers expect to miss out on from the Guns & Ammo Excise Tax after putting gun stores out of business with the Semi-Auto Gun Ban. This bill passed the House State, Civic, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee on March 17th and will now go to the House floor for debate among the whole chamber. Follow this link to find your Representative and urge him or her to oppose this bill. Please also use this link to contact every Democratic Representative, urging a NO vote on this legislation.
HB25-1062: Penalty for Theft of Firearms - This bill would increase penalties for theft of firearms by making theft of any firearm, regardless of its monetary value, a class 6 felony. We support this proposal. It passed the House Judiciary Committee on February 18th and will go next to the House Appropriations Committee. Its next hearing has not been scheduled yet. View and contact the committee members here.