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Colorado's election reform law needs tuning up. A plan to put it on blocks for two years made by GOP candidates in tough election races this year is probably not going to fly.
Once it seemed all too obvious what the state Senate recalls mean for those who vote for gun-control legislation. Now, suddenly, how the recalls may affect 2014 election politics seems a little less clear.
Magpul Industries has remained quiet in the wake of news that the shooter in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school used three of the company's 30-round ammunition magazines. The silence is a departure.
It is too soon to know why it happened or exactly how it happened. But we know this: A man walked into the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. Monday morning and killed at least 12 people and was himself killed.