In top news this week, city leaders in Boulder, Colorado, are trying to figure out what steps they can take to make their community safer after a gunman opened fire in a grocery store last week, killing 10. While gun control and mental health initiatives are top of mind for Mayor Sam Weaver, this is easier said than done in the state of Colorado; state law makes it difficult for cities to enforce stricter gun regulations than the rest of the state. It's also not clear if such patchwork restrictions would have prevented last week's attack in the first place.
The city banned assault weapons in 2018, though a Boulder County District Court judge ruled just days before the shooting that such a ban was illegal under state law
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