ANALYSIS

Colorado just became the only state in America to require safety training before purchasing a semiautomatic rifle — the weapon platform involved in roughly three-quarters of the nation's deadliest mass shootings. The law is a deliberate workaround: after federal courts narrowed outright bans, Colorado's legislature is betting that procedural hurdles survive the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen test in ways that prohibitions cannot. For rural Coloradans hours from the nearest certified instructor, the "training requirement" may feel a lot like a ban.

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