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District attorney tackles illegal firearm sales BY JESSICA GIBBS

Brauchler calls for prison time for felons who attempt to obtain guns

JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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hen it comes to preventing gun violence, the cause hits close to home for District Attorney George Brauchler. Brauchler has watched his 18th Judicial District endure multiple high-profile tragedies in recent years: the Aurora theater shooting; the fatal attack by a gunman at Arapahoe High School; the shooting death of Deputy Zackari Parrish; and most recently, the STEM School Highlands Ranch attack in which a student was fatally shot and eight others were wounded. “I just remain baffled that some of these most noteworthy, most horrific acts of violence have taken place in, you know, the community I grew up in. The community that my kids are growing up in,” Brauchler said. “I know these people. They’ve been my neighbors and my community for my life, and I just don’t understand why so much of it is happening here. Why us?” Brauchler, a Republican who lives in Parker, is trying to do what he can, he said, without getting caught up or held back by hyperpartisan, hypercontentious debates over gun rights. In the days after mass shootings in early August devastated El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Brauchler formed a plan to tackle gun violence in his district — but not through hotly debated approaches like an assault-weapons ban or raising the age at which one can purchase firearms. Rather, he decided to lean on existing state laws, and he specifically sharpened his gaze on the illegal sale of firearms, which is attempted thousands of times in Colorado each year. In short, Brauchler wants diligent and early investigations into illegal firearm sales. He wants prison time for felons who try to or successfully obtain guns, instead of probation sentences laws hand down now.

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