The Right to Bear Nunchucks and Throwing Stars in Colorado

(PART II: ODD LAWS IN COLORADO) The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles burst onto television in America in 1987, launching the characters into mainstream popularity and becoming one of the most popular cartoons in television history. Being ninjas, the four anthropomorphic talking turtles each have their own personalized martial arts weapons: […]

Are Snowball Fights Still Illegal in Colorado?

(Part III: Odd Laws in Colorado) In 2018, a 9-year-old boy named Dane Best made international headlines for convincing the town council in his hometown of Severance, Colorado, to overturn a century-old law that said throwing snowballs was illegal. “Snowballs” fell under the town’s definition of “missiles,” and an ordinance […]