Provided to the Denver Post
The invite urging Second Amendment activists to protest Gov. John Hickenlooper when he speaks to Club 20 Saturday.Coloradans opposed to three gun measures that Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law this week plan to stage a protest in Grand Junction Saturday when he speaks at Club 20′s annual spring meeting.
Hickenlooper, a Democrat, was moved to act after shootings at an Aurora theater last July and a Connecticut elementary school in December.
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, in 2000 supported an initiative requiring background checks at gun shows, a measure introduced in reaction to the shootings at Columbine High School. Gun-rights activists booed Owens at the Republican state convention that year.