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Tuesday, February 17, 2026·3h 11m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Judiciary Committee killed HB26-1021, the Second Amendment Protection Act, postponing indefinitely a sweeping effort to repeal Colorado's firearm laws and eliminate the Office of Gun Violence Prevention after an extended constitutional back-and-forth between the bill's sponsors and committee Democrats.

Key Actions

·Second Amendment Protection ActKilled

Notable Quotes

Three day waiting period. As a woman who has been stalked for the last year, if I don't have a gun right now, which I do and I firmly believe is my greatest equalizer, I have to wait to be able to protect myself and my family, I'm going to get emotional. That is not fair.

Brandi BradleyThe bill's co-sponsor grounded her opposition to Colorado's waiting-period law in her own experience being stalked, the hearing's most personal moment.

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Votes

Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (7)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey
No (4)Brandi Bradley, Ava Flanell, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh
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TranscriptPreview
Here. Clifford. Here. Espinosa. Here. Flannel. Present. Excused. Kelty. Excused. Slaw. Excused. Bradley. Here. Zokai. Here. Carter. Excused. Madam. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, committee members, we have House Bill 1021. There are a lot of witnesses today and so expect to have a very robust conversation on this bill and at the outset just want to announce that we're going to do two minute witness testimony so that we can get through everyone and we're going to limit questions on the panels to 15 minutes. And with that, whoever would like to begin. Rep. Bradley thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to say I'm excited to be here because I'm super excited to talk about the Second Amendment and my constitutional rights. For more than 15 years, the state of Colorado and successive General Assemblies have waged an unrelenting and deliberate assault on the constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms. Under the false pretense of public safety, lawmakers have enacted a steady stream of punitive, ideologically driven gun control measures designed not to stop criminals, but to exhaust, intimidate and disarm law abiding citizens. Oh, I'm missing a page. Sorry. There we go. Sorry.
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