# The Complete Record of Who Lobbied Colorado's Failed 2026 Gun Bills - **Publisher:** FoCo Observer — independent local news for Fort Collins and Northern Colorado - **Published:** Aug 6, 2026, 9:14 AM MDT (2026-08-06T09:14:47.560047-06:00) - **Section:** State-government - **Canonical URL:** https://foco-observer.com/fort-collins/the-complete-record-of-who-lobbied-colorado-s/ The full accounting of who lobbied Colorado's failed 2026 gun bills is public for the first time. State lobbyist disclosure reports — the last of them due July 15 — close the books on a session in which all three of the legislature's marquee firearms-rights bills died in committee, and the completed record shows national gun-control groups and Front Range city halls lined up against the state's most prominent gun-rights lobby [^1][^2][^3][^4]. The three failed measures reached broadly. HB26-1072, sponsored by Rep. Scott Slaugh, would have codified an individual's right to own, possess, and use a firearm to the maximum extent permitted by the state and federal constitutions, and would have repealed extreme risk protection orders — the "red flag" mechanism that lets courts temporarily remove firearms from people found to pose a risk [^1]. HB26-1021 would have repealed a wide slate of existing firearms laws in a single measure, among them private-transfer background checks, the minimum purchase age of 21, the three-day waiting period, safe-storage requirements, gun-free zones in government buildings, schools, and child care centers, and restrictions on unserialized firearms [^2]. HB26-1212, sponsored by Reps. Ava Flanell and Carlos Barron, would have allowed permitless concealed carry at 18, made permits lifetime, and repealed local governments' authority to regulate carry [^3]. All three now carry the legislature's "postponed indefinitely" status — the committee mechanism that kills a bill. The red-flag repeal drew the heaviest organized attention. Rocky Mountain Gun Owners registered in support of HB26-1072 within days of the session's start; Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, COMBINE, and the City of Boulder all registered in opposition [^4]. The same filings map positions across the wider slate of 2026 firearms bills. Local governments lined up behind two regulatory measures: Boulder County, the City of Boulder, the City and County of Denver, and Blue Rising registered support for HB26-1144, a proposed ban on three-dimensional printing of firearms and components, with Rocky Mountain Gun Owners opposed; Boulder County, the City of Boulder, and the League of Women Voters of Colorado backed SB26-043, on record-keeping and regulation of firearm-barrel sales, with Douglas County opposed [^4]. County Sheriffs of Colorado and the Colorado District Attorneys' Council registered as monitoring SB26-085, on military protection orders, and Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Action monitored HB26-1302, on the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's InstaCheck background-check unit operating hours [^4]. Most of the registered positions closed out June 30, per the filings, and the July 15 reporting deadline swept in the season's final disclosures — before then, the lobbying record of the 2026 gun fight was a running tally; now it is a complete one [^4]. [^1]: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1072 [^2]: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1021 [^3]: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1212 [^4]: https://data.colorado.gov/resource/sche-yqzf.json ## Sources - [https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1072](https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1072) - [https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1021](https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1021) - [https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1212](https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1212) ## More from FoCo Observer - [This story (web)](https://foco-observer.com/fort-collins/the-complete-record-of-who-lobbied-colorado-s/) - [State-government section](https://foco-observer.com/section/state-government/) - [Front page](https://foco-observer.com/) - [All pages for LLMs](https://foco-observer.com/llms.txt) - [News feed (RSS)](https://foco-observer.com/rss.xml)