Colorado Campus Gun Ban Initiative (2016)
| Colorado Campus Gun Ban Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Firearms | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Colorado Campus Gun Ban Initiative was not put on a 2016 statewide ballot in the state of Colorado as an initiated state statute.
If approved by voters, the measure would have banned concealed weapons on public college campuses.
Proponents of this measure originally sought to place it on a 2014 ballot, but later decided to wait until 2016.[1]
Background
Concealed carry on campus laws in the 50 states
As of May 31, 2016, the following eight states featured laws allowing the carry of concealed firearms on college campuses:[2]
As of May 2016, Tennessee law allowed certain faculty measures to carry firearms on campus.[2]
The following 18 states feature laws banning or restricting the carry of concealed firearms on college campuses:[2]
As of May 2016, the remaining 23 states allowed each college or university to permit or ban the carry of concealed firearms. Arkansas, however, featured laws allowing certain faculty measures to carry concealed firearms whether or not the college or university allowed the practice.[2]
In 2013, the state legislature passed three gun control laws. Some of the laws were contentious and were introduced and approved, in part, as the response to mass shootings in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado, in July 2012 and in a grade school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.[3] The legislature was also considering a bill with the same objective as the current measure - banning concealed weapons on college campuses. However, the bill was tabled after Sen. Evie Hudak (D-19) confronted a rape victim who said she should have the right to carry a gun for protection.[4]
The passage of the other three gun bills considered by the legislature triggered efforts to recall Sen. Angela Giron (D-3), Senate President John Morse (D-11) and Hudak. Giron and Morse were successfully recalled, and Hudak chose to resign.[5][6]
Path to the ballot
Supporters needed to obtain signatures totaling at least 5 percent of the total number of votes cast for the office of secretary of state in the preceding general election in order to place the measure on the ballot.
Related measures
- Colorado Campus Gun Ban Initiative (2014)
- Colorado 2013 Gun Legislation Repeal (2014)
- Colorado Ammunition Restrictions Law Amendment (2014)
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Daily Camera, "Effort to put campus gun ban on Colorado ballot withdrawn — for now," June 25, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 National Conference of State Legislatures, "GUNS ON CAMPUS: OVERVIEW," May 31, 2016
- ↑ FoxNews.com, "Colorado gun laws take effect amid final rush for ammo," July 1, 2013
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcbs - ↑ HuffingtonPost.com, "Angela Giron, Colorado State Senator Facing Gun Vote Recall, Predicts Victory," August 25, 2013
- ↑ Fox News, "Democratic Colorado state senator resigns to avoid recall over gun law," November 27, 2013
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