• June is Gun Violence Awareness and Prevention Month in Boulder County.
• Free gun locks are available.
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Boulder County, Colo. - Today (June 6) is National Gun Violence Awareness Day and June is Gun Violence Awareness and Prevention Month in Boulder County. The Boulder County Commissioners recognize this day and month as a way to raise awareness of the ongoing harm of gun violence and to emphasize the need for partnership between local, state, and federal governments to protect lives through common sense firearm regulation.

Residents are encouraged to join the commissioners in honoring the lives of victims and survivors of gun violence, and in building community to prevent gun violence by wearing orange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange Weekend (June 6-8).

Free Gun Locks

Visit the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office website for Home Firearms Safety Tips.

Free gun locks are available. Visit the Sheriff’s Office website for details (located under Safety Tips).

The Boulder County Coroner’s Office recently received a grant from the Colorado Office of Gun Violence Prevention for an additional 200 cable gun locks to be distributed by the Coroner’s Office, Sheriff’s Office, Boulder District Attorney’s Office, and local police departments.

Free gun locks will be available this Saturday (June 7) at the Coroner’s Office stand at Longmont Pride in Roosevelt Park (3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.).

2025 Boulder County Gun Violence Awareness and Prevention Month Proclamation

The Boulder County Commissioners recognize June as Gun Violence Awareness and Prevention Month in Boulder County. We recognize this month as a way to raise awareness of the ongoing harm of gun violence. We also recognize this month as a way to emphasize the need for partnership between local, state, and federal governments to protect the lives of our residents through common sense firearm regulation.

We encourage residents to join us in honoring the lives of victims and survivors of gun violence and in building community to prevent gun violence by wearing orange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day (June 6) and Wear Orange Weekend (June 6-8).

We make this proclamation because the United States suffers from an epidemic of gun violence unparalleled in any other developed nation where over 40,000 people died as a result of gun violence last year. The United States also ranks highest of all wealthy nations for gun-related deaths.

Gun violence prevention is also a matter of racial equity. Firearm-related deaths continue to be the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States with Black and Latino children more likely to be harmed or die from gun violence than white children peers due to systemic racism. Concentrated firearm homicide is tied closely to poverty, which is tied to inequality, segregation, and racism.

Gun violence impacts us all in one way or another. Almost two-thirds of adults report that they or someone they know or care about have experienced gun violence in their lifetime. Suicides make up the highest proportion of deaths related to firearms, followed by homicides and accidental shootings.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Common sense gun violence prevention policy saves lives. Data from the Centers on Disease Control demonstrate that states with stronger gun laws have fewer deaths, which is one of the reasons the Boulder County Commissioners passed Boulder County ordinances to prevent gun violence in 2022 and supported gun violence prevention state legislation over the years, including legislation this year, such as:

Penalty for Theft of Firearms: HB25-1062 In current law, the sentencing structure for theft, except for auto theft, is based on the value of the item stolen. The bill exempts theft of firearms from that sentencing structure and makes theft of a firearm a class 6 felony, regardless of the firearm's value.

Requirements for Sale of Firearms Ammunition: HB25-1133 requires that ammunition sold at retail must be accessible to a purchaser or transferee only with the assistance of the vendor, and the bill prohibits the retail sale of ammunition to a person who is younger than 21 years of age.

Semi-automatic Firearms and Rapid Fire Devices: SB25-003 prohibits selling, transferring, purchasing certain semi-automatic weapons, with exceptions, or if a person has taken specific hunter and firearm education courses.

The commissioners thank State Representatives and Senators for their work to introduce and lead on this important legislation.

Dated June 5, 2025.

Commissioner Claire Levy

Commissioner Marta Loachamin

Commissioner Ashley Stolzmann

If the reference to suicide has impacted you, please access 24/7 help by phone, online, and in person, regardless of your ability to pay:

Colorado Crisis Services 1-844-493-8255 or text TALK to 38255 (in English and Spanish)

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