{"id":118396,"date":"2026-08-24T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118396"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:12:31","slug":"118396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118396","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun rights lawsuit aims at Colorado\u2019s state & local carry restrictions.<\/a><\/p>\n

DENVER\u2013Colorado is facing yet another lawsuit over statewide and local gun rights restrictions, this one challenging the state\u2019s concealed carry permitting and the City of Denver\u2019s open-carry ban.<\/p>\n

The latest lawsuit, brought by the National Rifle Association and two out-of-state gun owners, argues that the state and city\u2019s carry laws \u201ctogether leave otherwise qualified nonresidents who travel to Denver with no lawful means to carry a handgun there for self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The complaint marks the latest in a line of recent legal challenges, brought by both gun rights groups and the Trump administration, targeting restrictive gun laws in Colorado.<\/p>\n

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Lawful carry curtailed<\/h3>\n

The two out-of-state residents, Greg Howeth of Hawaii and Zackary Dougherty of South Carolina, both regularly visit Denver and would like to carry for self defense, but are not permitted because of the local and state laws, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Colorado requires concealed handgun permit holders to be residents, while open carry is generally allowed statewide without a permit unless a local government has banned the practice, which\u00a0Denver has done<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Howeth, who has permits to carry in Hawaii and Utah, regularly flies to Denver because he has a second home in Weld County, but Colorado doesn\u2019t recognize either of his permits. Dougherty previously lived in Loveland, where his current employer is located, so he regularly travels through Denver on work trips.<\/p>\n

Neither can lawfully carry \u2013 whether concealed or openly \u2013 while in Denver, despite being otherwise qualified and trained, they argue in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Arguing the Second<\/h3>\n

\u201cThese NRA members\u2019 Second Amendment rights have been and are being violated by the combined effect of Denver and Colorado law because the Amendment protects carrying firearms when visiting other states,\u201d the lawsuit reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, the challenged Colorado and Denver laws referenced herein have denied, and will continue to deny, responsible, peaceable, law-abiding adults who are non-residents of Colorado who travel to Denver their fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms secured under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution,\u201d continues the complaint.<\/p>\n

The\u00a052-page complaint names<\/a>\u00a0the City and County of Denver as a defendant, along with the police chief, public safety director, city attorney and local sheriff.\u00a0 Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Stan Hilkey, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Safety are also named.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Complete Colorado<\/em>\u00a0previously reported<\/a>, Colorado is also facing a lawsuit from the Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA) challenging\u00a0Senate Bill 25-003<\/a>, the state\u2019s new permit-to-purchase scheme for semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and handguns that went into effect on August 1.<\/p>\n

CSSA, an NRA affiliate, is also\u00a0suing<\/a>\u00a0over state and local magazine capacity restrictions, which are additionally being\u00a0challenged<\/a>\u00a0by the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun rights lawsuit aims at Colorado\u2019s state & local carry restrictions. DENVER\u2013Colorado is facing yet another lawsuit over statewide and local gun rights restrictions, this one challenging the state\u2019s concealed carry permitting and the City of Denver\u2019s open-carry ban. The latest lawsuit, brought by the National Rifle Association and two out-of-state gun owners, argues that … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118397,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118396\/revisions\/118397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}