Colorado governor signs gun control bills after massacre, raises minimum age to buy firearms

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Colorado governor signs gun control bills after massacre, raises minimum age to buy firearms
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Two of the new laws will raise the age to buy any firearm from 18 to 21 and install a three-day waiting period between the purchase and receipt of a gun.

A third will strengthen the state's red flag law, which allows a judge to temporarily remove someone's gun if the person poses a threat to themselves or others. A fourth rolls back some legal protections for the firearm industry, exposing them to lawsuits from the victims of gun violence.

A fifth proposal, a sweeping ban on semi-automatic firearms that includes certain pistols, shotguns and rifles, was killed by Democrats last week - illustrating that the Democratic majority was only willing to go so far when it came to gun restrictions.

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