A timeline of Colorado gun laws since the Aurora movie theater shooting

A timeline of Colorado gun laws since the Aurora movie theater shooting

Colorado lawmakers have passed a slew of new firearm laws in the dozen years since a major local mass shooting — with the bulk of them enacted in just the last five legislative sessions. Here’s a timeline of the major laws, along with several incidents that helped influence the drafting of them. July 20, 2012: A gunman opens fire in a movie theater in Aurora, killing a dozen people and injuring 70. Dec. 14, 2012: A mass shooting at Sandy Hook El…