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Republicans have one more shot Monday to change Colorados firearm laws, including two bills that would eliminate gun-control measures passed by Democrats in 2013.

The GOP-controlled Senate has already passed legislation to repeal a 15-round limit on ammunition magazines.

They also passed and new background-check requirements for private gun sales conducted online and in person. Those laws from two years ago infuriated gun rights advocates and led to the recalls of two Democratic state senators, and the resignation of a third who was facing a recall effort.

The Democrat-led House committee hearing the bills Monday is expected to reject them.

Other proposals expected to go down include bills to allow concealed handguns at public schools, and to let people to carry concealed firearms without a permit.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The deluge of derision this weekend from Republicans responding to Hillary Rodham Clintons presidential launch is the start of a highly coordinated effort by national GOP leaders and conservative groups to effectively begin the general-election campaign against the likely Democratic nominee.

Acknowledging Clintons political strength, many Republican officials and strategists on the right are determined to get a head start on attacking her record as secretary of state and highlighting what they see as her vulnerabilities, almost ignoring her lesser-known rivals.

The early onslaught a battery of opposition research, snarky videos and even an upcoming feature film reflects Republicans desire to use a common opponent to unite their ranks, which have fractured as the GOP has stumbled in the past two presidential elections.

Clintons 2016 Republican challengers, some appearing Friday at the National Rifle Associations convention in Tennessee, also assailed the Democratic front-runner in speeches and interviews ahead of her entry, which her advisers said would come Sunday with a low-key rollout.

The barrage has a familiar feel. More than 14 years after Bill Clinton left the White House, Republicans are stepping back onto a battlefield in which they have toiled for decades, reviving Clinton controversies old and new as they seek to counter the formal return of a longtime adversary to presidential politics.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) released a video shortly after Hillary Clinton announced that she is running for president. He said, "we're ready for Hillary. We know exactly what to expect." (YouTube/Ted Cruz)

Reince Priebus, the combative chairman of the Republican National Committee who has become the partys most prominent Clinton critic, is leading the blitz. In recent days, the RNC has heavily promoted its Stop Hillary initiative with a Web ad that raises questions about foreign donations to her familys foundation and her use of a private e-mail account at the State Department.

Priebus who habitually describes Clinton as a cold, Nixonian liberal millionaire has approved a six-figure advertising campaign targeting voters in swing states, according to Allison Moore, a spokeswoman for the RNC.

But a galaxy of other conservative power brokers, rabble-rousers and advocacy organizations is involved, including right-wing Web sites and super PACs that can accept millions of dollars, without limits, from the partys biggest donors.

GOP consultant Roger J. Stone, in an interview Saturday, said he is finishing a book tentatively titled The Clintons War on Women and expected out this summer about the Clintons handling of episodes that have clouded Bill Clintons personal life.

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WASHINGTON As Hillary Rodham Clinton begins her presidential campaign, Republicans are vowing to intensify their latest investigation into the former secretary of states response to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

We have a mission, and its deadly serious, said Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Kansas Republican and member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

Republicans have been trying for more than two years to prove that Clinton failed to bolster security before the assault and should share blame for the Obama administrations initial, erroneous account of what happened.

A committee report last year found little evidence that Clinton did anything wrong, and it seemed as though she had escaped serious damage from the incident welcome news to the Democrat before starting her anticipated presidential run, which was announced formally on Sunday.

The questions about Clintons actions got fresh fuel recently as it was revealed she used a private email server for every email she sent as Secretary of State giving Republicans a new avenue to question her handling of the job, and adding an element of lack of transparency to the accusations surrounding her.

Many questions remain unanswered and I applaud the Select Committees continued diligent efforts to find the truth, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California said in a memo April 9 to fellow House Republicans.

Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Libya. The Obama administration initially said the attack grew out of a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islamic video, an assessment that turned out to be incorrect.

Clinton has said she turned over all her government-related emails some 30,490 messages to the State Department, which is reviewing them for public release. Another 31,830 personal messages were deleted.

That led to cries of outrage from Republicans and others. Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, has asked Clinton to appear privately before the panel by May 1 for an interview about her emails.

The committee wants to understand what the secretary did, when she did it, and why she did it, Gowdy said in a March 31 letter to Clintons lawyer.

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Story highlights Republican candidates see it as a no-brainer to slam Obama over Iran, ISIS and Russia GOP candidates believe voters are insecure and want a clearer vision than Obama's nuanced version of the world They must overcome Hillary Clinton's credentials as a former secretary of state, senator and first lady

But the GOP's strategy carries significant risks, not least because its candidates, though bristling with hawkish rhetoric, are notably short of hands-on foreign policy experience.

Still, the party's presidential candidates see it as a no-brainer to slam the Obama era as a time when America has snubbed its friends to talk to foes such as Iran, staged Middle East retreats that spawned ISIS and other unsavory foes and emboldened adversaries such as Russia's Vladimir Putin by ignoring red lines.

It's an especially attractive strategy because the economy -- often the top issue in presidential campaigns -- is healing, and the likely Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, can be painted as the heir of what the GOP considers President Barack Obama's disastrous foreign policy.

READ: You can trust me on foreign policy, Rand Paul says

"When the economy is less of an issue and there's a lack of stability in the world, then security becomes a huge issue," said Mike Leavitt, the former Utah governor who served as Mitt Romney's transition chief during the latter stages of his 2012 campaign.

"We find ourselves in a situation with an imperfect but improving economy, but a lot of conflict in the world."

For decades, Republicans torched Democrats in presidential elections as weak on national security. But the Iraq debacle robbed the GOP of that trick, and Obama turned the tables in 2008 and 2012.

Now the GOP wants its big stick back.

However, to get it back, the party will have to rely on candidates that don't come close to having the national security credentials of Clinton, a former secretary of state, senator and first lady. Of the dozen-odd Republican politicians making signs of running, only a few senators can credibly claim in-depth work on foreign policy issues, and even they haven't made executive decisions on par with what the presidency involves.

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