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November a big month for background checks in Colorado

by Christen Smith

Background checks in Colorado didn’t just have a record-setting Black Friday — federal data shows checks in the state hit a yearly high during November.

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Colorado officer gets 16 years for fatally shooting unarmed man

by Brian Seay

A former Colorado police officer was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday for shooting and killing an unarmed man.

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Colorado Senate approves repeal of expanded background check law

by Chris Eger

Lawmakers in the State's Republican-controlled Senate took aim at Colorado's 2013 universal background check law that includes most private gun transfer, voting to repeal it Wednesday.

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Data questioned a year after Colorado’s background check law passed (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

"Nothing good came of the passage of the law," contend GOP leaders as a review of a year of background check data prove to be just 7 percent of estimates.

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