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Colorado Firearms, Self-Defense & Legal News
This Triple A Coach briefing tracks firearms law, lawful self-defense, concealed carry, court decisions, legislation, and firearms-training issues relevant to Colorado gun owners and armed professionals. Special attention is given to Colorado Springs, El Paso County, and surrounding Colorado communities, with important federal developments included when they may affect local readers.
TODAY'S BRIEFING Colorado and Colorado Springs current affairs first, followed by firearms, self-defense, legal developments, and major events worth knowing. Only items published during the preceding 24 hours are eligible. Significant public-interest events may be included even when they fall outside the normal firearms/self-defense focus. |
Colorado & Colorado Springs / El Paso County
Local and state developments are separated from the national briefing so Colorado clients can quickly see what may affect them closer to home.
Colorado Springs / El Paso County Watch
LOCAL CURRENT AFFAIRS + LEGAL El Paso County woman charged with throwing neighbor’s cat to her dogs set for Wednesday court hearingThe video above and the article below contain details that may be disturbing to some viewers. EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. |
LOCAL CURRENT AFFAIRS + LEGAL Colorado Springs officers’ tasing, threats prompt federal judge to block use of suspect’s statementsA federal judge blocked the government last month from using some of a defendant’s statements as evidence, reasoning that the defendant made them involuntarily as Colorado Springs officers tased him five times and one officer threatened to kill him. Officers responded one morning in June 2025 to a theft call from a plumbing store in […] |
LOCAL CURRENT AFFAIRS Local blind athlete prepping to compete with youth USA Goalball team at World ChampionshipsCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Colorado School for the Blind alumnus Tayler Moses is a key member of the USA's first Goalball team in years as the girls prepare for the youth World Championship in Kazakhstan. |
Colorado Statewide
CURRENT ISSUE · 2 SOURCES Colorado voters will be asked in November to amend state constitution, impose graduated income tax systemInitiative 195 will ask voters to raise Colorado’s flat 4.4% income tax rate on income earned by people and corporations that exceeds $500,000 The proposal to create income tax tiers — which would replace Colorado’s flat rate — has been certified for the November general election ballot, setting the stage for a major showdown between two competing forces seeking to define the parameters of state revenue. Initiative No. Why it is here: Multiple approved sources are covering the same underlying topic, so their feed descriptions are condensed into one briefing item. |
SIGNIFICANT NEWS Opinion: While Colorado and the West burn, Washington rearranges org chartsTrump administration’s attempt to combat wildfires is failing across the Western U.S., costing us lives and communities |
LEGAL Xcel’s move to get a quick decision in dispute over power line path rebuffed by Colorado Supreme CourtXcel tried to condemn a 550-foot strip of Cheyenne County ranchland to connect two wind farms to a substation. The landowner objected to the route. |
LEGAL New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit allegesBoulder climate lab’s consortium managers also accuse illegal stonewalling on records while they seek relief |
Current Affairs & Quick Hits
Firearms, self-defense, legal developments, local current affairs, and exceptionally significant national or international events are summarized here.
FIREARMS Las 5 cosas que debes saber este 2 de septiembrePor CNN Español Sheinbaum reconoce en su segundo informe de Gobierno que la relación con EE.UU. ha tenido “dificultades”. |
SIGNIFICANT NEWS Hegseth’s culture war fixation disrupting Army progress, sources sayBy Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — In the aftermath of the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, multiple sources told CNN they believe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is damaging the Army’s efforts to adapt to the modern battlefield as he focuses on culture wars and prioritizing his own image of the “American warfighter,” |
SIGNIFICANT NEWS Flood emergency in Texas as Edouard dumps over 20 inches of rain and countingBy Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Chris Dolce (CNN) — Flash flood warnings are posted across parts of southeast Texas as Tropical Depression Edouard tracks sluggishly inland with drenching downpours. 🌧️ In the storm’s path? |
SIGNIFICANT NEWS Race against time to find workers missing in Nepal’s hydropower tunnels. Here’s what we knowBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Hopes are fading for a quick rescue operation as Nepali crews and foreign specialists race to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods. Around 900 workers are missing at various hydropower projects |
SIGNIFICANT NEWS Landslides and floods have wreaked havoc in Nepal and China. Follow the river down the path of destruction.By Amy O’Kruk, Annette Choi, Byron Manley, Soph Warnes, Becky Pinnington, Rosa de Acosta, Marco Storel, Grace Widyatmadja, Renée Rigdon, Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — Massive landslides and catastrophic flash floods have wreaked havoc at the Nepal-China border, destroying houses, wiping out bridges and killing more than 1,100 people. Around 4,500 people remain unaccounted for |
SIGNIFICANT NEWS Flood threat persists in Texas as Edouard weakens to a tropical depressionCNN By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Chris Dolce (CNN) — The fifth named storm of the El Niño-stunted Atlantic hurricane season has weakened to a tropical depression, but is still dumping heavy rain on parts of Texas and Louisiana after making landfall Tuesday afternoon near the two states’ shared border on the Gulf Coast. 🌧️ In |
