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Two Colorado legislators who supported stricter gun control laws lost their jobs on Tuesday in an unprecedented recall election that became the center of the national debate over regulating firearms.
Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron were both defeated, the Denver Post reported, in the recall effort, which served as a referendum on their support in passing legislation requiring universal background checks on private gun sales and restricting large-capacity ammunition magazines following last year's shooting massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Those bills were signed into law by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in March, eight months after the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., and nearly three months after the classroom murders in Newtown, Conn.
The recall election — the first in the state’s history — inflamed legions of gun-rights activists who say the bills ran counter to Colorado’s entrenched Second Amendment tradition.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...l-laws-ousted-in-recall?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=6
Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron were both defeated, the Denver Post reported, in the recall effort, which served as a referendum on their support in passing legislation requiring universal background checks on private gun sales and restricting large-capacity ammunition magazines following last year's shooting massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Those bills were signed into law by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in March, eight months after the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., and nearly three months after the classroom murders in Newtown, Conn.
The recall election — the first in the state’s history — inflamed legions of gun-rights activists who say the bills ran counter to Colorado’s entrenched Second Amendment tradition.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...l-laws-ousted-in-recall?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=6
