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House Judiciary postpones bill that would hold property owners liable when disarmament leads to harm
Summary
Representative Luck's bill would have made an entity that prohibits arms on its property potentially liable if a person suffered harm while disarmed. After questions about breadth, sovereign immunity and proof standards, the committee declined to move the bill to appropriations and instead postponed it indefinitely.
DENVER — The House Judiciary Committee postponed indefinitely a measure that would have created a cause of action against property owners and public entities that restrict weapons on their premises and where that restriction is alleged to have contributed to a person’s harm.
Representative Luck introduced House Bill 12‑32 as a liability measure: if an entity prevents a person from carrying a weapon for self-defense and that person is later harmed, the sponsor said the entity should bear responsibility for that harm. ‘‘If one is stripped of their ability to defend themselves and they get hurt, then they should be able to be made whole by the entity that stripped them of the…
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