Colorado Newsline: Colorado lawmakers shows hypocrisy of Second Amendment posturing

Larry Liston, a Colorado state senator, has long been a staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights. You might expect, then, that this Republican from Colorado Springs would defend the right of Alex Pretti, the man shot to death by federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis on Saturday, to have been armed. But no.

One of the first measures introduced in the Legislature this year was Senate Bill 26-4, which would expand the types of eligible petitioners under Colorado’s temporary firearm removal provisions, or “red flag” law.

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