By Michael Karlik | Colorado Politics
A federal judge agreed on Friday that she would await the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in an upcoming Second Amendment case before she addresses the constitutionality of similar gun ordinances in multiple Boulder County jurisdictions.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, the National Association for Gun Rights, and several individual Coloradans filed suit in 2022 over local firearms ordinances that generally prohibited the sale, transfer, and possession of large-capacity magazines and semi-automatic guns deemed “assault weapons,” with some variation. As defendants, they named the town of Superior, the cities of Louisville and Boulder, and Boulder County.
In July 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang clarified which claims could proceed against which defendants, dividing the claims into the current and future possession of assault weapons and the current and future possession of large-capacity magazines. Both sides then moved to end the case in their favor without a trial
under the Supreme Court’s recently created standard applicable specifically to gun rights challenges.
Then, as the motions were pending before Wang, the Supreme Court announced that it will decide whether the U.S. Constitution guarantees “the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.”
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