{"id":47426,"date":"2021-04-13T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-bills-tightening-gun-regulations-go-to-gov-polis-who-will-sign-them\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:38:29","slug":"two-bills-tightening-gun-regulations-go-to-gov-polis-who-will-sign-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-bills-tightening-gun-regulations-go-to-gov-polis-who-will-sign-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Two bills tightening gun regulations go to Gov. Polis, who will sign them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4a80dcfe-7210-41b6-b2ef-e4663792491b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1414\" height=\"809\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Dave Zajac\/Record-Journal via Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>State lawmakers have sent two bills that would tighten gun regulations in Colorado to Gov. Jared Polis, who plans to sign them into law.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 78 would require Coloradans to report a lost or stolen firearm within five days of realizing that it is missing. Failing to do so would be a Class 2 petty offense, punishable by a $25 fine. A subsequent offense would be a Class 3 misdemeanor that could result in a jail sentence, though rarely does.<\/p>\n<p>The measure cleared the Legislature on April 6. No Republicans voted for the bill.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 1106 would require gun owners to use a trigger lock or store their weapons in a safe when they know, or reasonably should know, that a child or someone who is ineligible to possess a firearm can gain access to the gun. Failing to do so would be a Class 2 misdemeanor, which is punishable by fines and jail time.<\/p>\n<p>The measure won final passage on Monday in the state Senate. No Republicans voted for House Bill 1106, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Polis) intends to sign them,\u201d said Shelby Wieman, a spokeswoman for the governor.<\/p>\n<p>The two bills were introduced before the shooting at a Boulder King Soopers in late March in which a gunman killed 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers are expected this year to also introduce and debate a bill that would require a waiting period between when someone purchases a gun and when they can access the weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The Boulder shooting prompted discussions about the possibility of Democrats introducing a bill to ban assault weapons this year, but it\u2019s not clear if there are enough votes in the Legislature to pass the policy. Polis and House Speaker Alec Garnett, D-Denver, have declined to say if they support the proposal.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans voted for legislation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[394,150,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-legislature","tag-firearms","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87181,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426\/revisions\/87181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47426"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}