CO House passes semiautomatic firearm ban, sending it to State Senate [Video]

• Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House has passed a bill to ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms.
• The bill passed with a 35-27 vote and is now heading to the Democratic-led state Senate.
• The legislation faces challenges in the Senate, where Democrats have a slimmer majority.

Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year.

The bill, which passed on a 35-27 vote, is now on its way to the Democratic-led state Senate. If it passes there, it could bring Colorado in line with 10 other states — including California, New York and Illinois — that have prohibitions on semiautomatic guns.

But even in a state plagued by some of the nation’s worst mass shootings, such legislation faces headwinds.

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