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House Republican leader Patrick Neville of Castle Rock tried and failed for a sixth straight year to make it legal to possess a gun on a school campus with a concealed-carry permit in Colorado.

House Bill 1040 failed on a 6-3 party-line vote before the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee in the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.

Thursday night, the committee also killed House Bill 1099 to remove the state's 15-round limit on ammunition magazines by the same 6-3 vote.

The latter law, a ban on high-capacity magazines, was passed in 2013, the last time Democrats held majorities in the House, Senate and the governor's office, before reclaiming the Senate in 2018. The explosive issue then cost at least two Democrats their seats in recall elections that year.

The history Neville had in mind Tuesday goes back farther than his legislative service, to when he was sophomore at Columbine High School on the day of historic massacre that left classmates and a teacher dead in 1999.

His bill would end gun-free zones, which the Republican leader said are magnets for those looking to do harm on K-12 campuses.

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/legislature/colorado-legislators-kill-campus-gun-bill-as-father-of-stem/article_6fc208d8-3e22-11ea-87a9-d74ef27e0b13.html