Colorado Tightens Gun Restrictions Amid Hunt for Killer

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Colorado begins the task of implementing its toughest gun laws in a decade even as police searched for a suspect, and a motive, in the shooting death of the state’s top prisons official.

Governor John Hickenlooper signed bills requiring background checks on gun buyers and a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines yesterday about 12 hours after Tom Clements, 58, was shot to death when he answered the door at his home north of Colorado Springs.