Governor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who signed the bills into law, was named as the defendant in the lawsuit.
Colorado has seen two of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. In addition to the 2012 theater shooting, it was the site of a 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot dead a teacher and 12 other students before committing suicide.
But it is also a state where gun ownership is treasured.
Colorado’s Attorney General John Suthers, a Republican, said his office never claimed the laws were “good, wise, or sound policy,” but that it had fulfilled its responsibility to defend the constitutionality of the state law in question.
(Reporting by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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