2026 CO Firearm Legislation - We The Second Colorado

2026 Colorado 2A Legislative Watch

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Active 2026 Bills

Bill Number	Title	WTS Position	Sponsor(s)	Committee	Status	Description
SB26-004	Red Flag ERPO Expansion	Oppose	Sullivan Froelich	House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs	• Governor Signed	Expands persons allowed to file Red Flag ERPOs to include hospitals and mental health clinics, crisis co-responders, treatment centers, K-12 schools, and colleges or universities. More info HERE.
SB26-043	Record Keeping & Regulation of Sale of Firearm Barrel	Oppose	Sulivan Froelich Brown	House State, Civic, Veterans, & Military Affairs	• Passed Senate 3/2 • Passed House Committee 3/16 • House 3rd Reading 4/15	Regulates gun barrels in Colorado by forcing most barrels sales through FFLs, banning private sales and transfers, and creating new misdemeanor crimes for selling or possessing a barrel with alleged intent to sell. It requires FFLs to collect and retain detailed buyer information for five years and places enforcement responsibility on dealers. More info HERE.
HB26-1144	Prohibit Possession of Firearm Manufacturing Files and CNC/3D Printing of Firearms or Components	Oppose	Boesnecker Ghilcrest Sullivan Wallace	House Judiciary	• Passed 4/2 • Awaiting Governor’s Signature	Prohibits the manufacture of firearms and firearm components using 3D printing or CNC machining, and restricts the possession and distribution of digital files used for such manufacturing. More info HERE.
HB26-1126	Requirements For Firearm Dealers/Digital Gun Owner Registry	Oppose	Woodrow Sirota Kipp	Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs	• Passed 4/14 • Awaiting Governor’s Signature	Dramatically expands Colorado’s existing firearm dealer permit system by mandating electronic records for all firearm transactions, imposes new security and staff training requirements, and authorizes $100k fines. While framed as “dealer regulation,” the bill builds the framework for firearm tracking and uses administrative punishment to pressure gun stores into compliance. More info HERE.
HB26-1302	CBI Firearms InstaCheck Unit Operating Hours	Oppose	Hartsook Boesnecker	Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs	• Passed 4/14 • Awaiting Governor’s Signature	Under current law, a firearm transfer cannot be completed until a background check is processed through InstaCheck. This bill allows CBI to determine operating days and hours of Instacheck with no legal requirements put in place.
HB26-1255	Social Media Duty to Report & Search Warrants	Oppose	Story Cutter	House Judiciary	• Passed House Committee 3/19 • House 2nd Reading 4/15	Forces social media companies to monitor, censor, and report users who post about what could be construed as illegal firearm activity, treating lawful speech like criminal activity.

Dead 2026 Bills

Bill Number	Title	WTS Position	Sponsor(s)	Committee	Status	Description
HB26-1021	Second Amendment Protection Act	Support	Bradley Brooks	—	• Died in Committee 2/17	Repeals Colorado’s sweeping gun laws, including SB25-003 which imposed major restrictions on semiautomatic firearms, along with training, and purchasing requirements. It also eliminates the 3-day waiting period, rolls back dealer and gun-show regulations, repeals firearm-industry liability standards, limits local gun-control authority, and abolishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, effectively undoing much of Colorado’s recent gun-control framework. And more.
HB26-1108	FBI Surveillance of CBI Fingerprinted Individuals	Oppose	Lukens Hartsook Michaelsen-Jenet Rich	—	• Died in committee 2/24	Authorizes the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to participate in the FBI’s Rap Back Service, a continuous monitoring program that gives implicit permission for the FBI to surveil anyone who undergoes a CBI fingerprint background check, such as is done for Concealed Handgun Permits. More info HERE.
HB26-1072	Codification of Firearm Rights & Repeal of Red Flag ERPO Laws	Support	Slaugh	—	• Died in Committee 3/2	Affirms an individual’s right to own, possess, and use a firearm to the maximum extent permitted by the state and federal constitutions, and repeals Colorado’s “Red Flag” ERPO law in it’s entirety.
HB26-1212	Constitutional Carry of Handgun	Support	Barron Flanell	—	• Died in Committee 4/7	Enact the legal right to carry a handgun without a permit in public.