The Colorado House spent the bulk of Legislative Day 045 debating HB 26-1144, a bill prohibiting 3D-printed firearms and the distribution of digital manufacturing instructions, defeating more than fifteen Republican amendments before passing the bill on second reading; the session also passed HJR 1019 honoring caregiving youth and HB 26-1133 closing a loophole in the Traveling Animal Protection Act.
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Representatives Ava Flanell and Brandi Bradley repeatedly cited the state fiscal note showing that from fiscal year 2022–2023 through fiscal year 2024–2025 'one white male has been sentenced and convicted for this offense' and that the fiscal note 'assumes that there will continue to be minimal or no additional criminal case filings or convictions for this offense under the bill,' arguing the bill punishes law-abiding citizens over a single case. Representative Gilchrist countered that 3D printed gun recoveries in 20 cities increased 1,000% over five years, that Denver recovered 64 3D printed crime guns in 2024 versus 9 in 2020, and cited a 13-year-old Washington boy whose home search revealed 23 firearms including multiple 3D printed guns; Representative Boesenecker cited the Club Q shooter and hundreds of 3D printed rapid-fire devices recovered in a March 2025 Colorado Springs operation.
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“The Club Q shooter who fatally shot five people and wounded 19 others with firearms built using primarily ghost gun components had begun building 3D printed guns the year before the shooting. The shooter had spent tens of thousands of dollars on 3D printers being used to make firearms.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe House will come to order. Today. The Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Fartuna Abdurrahman, Community College of Denver and Aziza Abdurahman from South High School, Denver. Guest of Representative ricks, House District 40. Please join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag. Mr. Schiebel, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon, Baronet, Basenecker. Bottoms, Bradfield. Bradley. Brooks. Brown, Caldwell, camacho. Carter, Clifford. DeGraff is excused. Duran. English. Espinosa. Ferre. Froelich. Flannel. Now frolick. I don't think. Frolick. She is. Oh, yeah. Garcia. Garcia. Sander, gilchrist. Goldstein. Gonzalez. Hamrick. Hartsook. Jackson. Johnson. Joseph. Kelty, leader. Lindsey. Luck, lukens. Mabry. Marshall. Representative marshall. Excused. Martinez, morrow, mccormick. Win. Pascal. Phillips. Richardson, ricks, brutnell, ryden, sirota. Slaw. Smith. Representative Smith. Is excused. Soper, stuart k. Stuart r. Storey. Sukla. Taggart, titone. Valdez. A. Representative valdez. Excused. Velasco, weinberg. Wilford. Representative Wilford. No. Excused. Winter. Woodrow. Representative woodrow. Woog. Zokai. And madam speaker, Like anymore. Maybe I'll just do a pressure. Happy. That's a line. That's a line. I mean, I love you, but why? That's our job. That's ridiculous. Okay, that is our job. It's it. It's. Members six. We have 60 present and five excused.…
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