DENVER — Nearly two years after a collection of firearm owners and gun rights groups sued Boulder County and three of its municipalities over their respective ordinances, a federal judge on Monday signaled she was prepared to dismiss the lawsuit due to a lack of standing.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, the National Association for Gun Rights and five individual Coloradans filed suit in 2022 over local firearms ordinances that generally prohibited the sale, transfer and possession of large-capacity magazines and semi-automatic guns deemed "assault weapons," with some variation. The plaintiffs based their challenge on a then-new U.S. Supreme Court decision, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, in which the court's conservative majority made it more difficult for gun restrictions to pass constitutional muster.
The parties submitted nearly 1,900 pages of material seeking to end the case in their favor without a trial, arguing why the ordinances did or did not meet Bruen's Second Amendment test. But U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang stopped short of that question, instead finding the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate why the ordinances injured them in the first place.
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