On Friday evening, Colorado lawmakers passed a controversial gun bill. Senate Bill 003 is now headed to the Governor Jared Polis’s desk to be signed into law. Senators voted 19 to 15 to approve the bill’s amended version.

After passing a final vote in the Colorado House of Representatives on Monday, a contentious gun bill is one step closer to becoming law.

A controversial gun control bill has cleared the Colorado General Assembly and now heads to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. Senate Bill 25-003, when introduced, initially outright banned the sale or purchase of most semi-automatic rifles or shotguns that take detachable magazines and exempted firearms with