Less than a year after the the passage of the “red flag” law — Colorado’s first gun reform since 2013 — Democrats say they’re going to introduce two more gun-related bills in the next few weeks.

The first would require gun owners to securely store their firearms. The aim is to prevent children from accessing guns and either intentionally or accidentally causing harm, said Rep. Kyle Mullica, a Northglenn Democrat who’s sponsoring the bill. He added that the bill will mainly concern how guns are stored inside homes, as opposed to businesses.

“I completely believe that people have the right to own and bear arms — my family and I own guns — but we want to make sure they’re properly stored and there’s not a risk,” Mullica said.

The second would require anyone whose firearms are lost or stolen to report the incident to authorities within a few days. Sponsor Rep. Tom Sullivan, an Aurora Democrat, said he’s more concerned with theft than loss, and specifically theft from vehicles.

Neither policy proposal has been finalized, but House Majority Leader Alec Garnett said he expects both to be introduced this month.

“I really do see these bills as very common sense,” he said. “The vast majority of Coloradans support these concepts. We have a suicide rate that’s one of the highest in the country, and anything we can do to promote responsible gun ownership is something responsible gun owners should support.”

Garnett, a Denver Democrat, joined Sullivan last year in sponsoring Colorado’s new red-flag law, which provides for confiscation of guns from certain people deemed dangers to themselves or others. So he knows well that any measure seeking to place any level of additional regulations on gun owners will bring blowback from Capitol Republicans and Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.

“I’ve been through the fire on gun safety legislation, but these should be bipartisan,” Garnett said. “These are no-brainers, to me.”

His counterpart, House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, a Castle Rock Republican, has already vowed to fight both proposals.

The “lost and stolen” bill, Neville argued, would effectively criminalize victims of crimes. Sullivan said his bill will propose a misdemeanor charge for anyone found to have waited beyond the grace period to report gun loss or theft.

The “safe storage” bill, Neville said, would make it harder for people to defend their homes in the event of invasions.

“You have to get up, put in a combination in a safe — that’s one extra second that makes it harder to defend yourself. Seconds matter in these circumstances,” said Neville, who was a student at Columbine High School when the mass shooting happened there.

But Neville knows he can’t stop either bill. Republicans are in the minority in the House and Senate, and the governor, Jared Polis, is a Democrat. And so, the minority leader said, the best his party may be able to do this legislative session is to rally their supporters in vocal opposition to gun reforms — just as they did last year during the red-flag debate.

“We’ve got to hold them accountable and tell the public what they’re doing,” Neville said. “We can’t take the Democrats at their word. They’re going to keep coming.”

It’s true, Sullivan told The Denver Post earlier this year. Gun reform “should be something that we discuss on a regular basis,” said the father of an Aurora theater shooting victim. “You should see one or two of these types of bills being brought forward, year after year after year, so that collectively, after five or six bills, we’ve tightened things up.”

Sullivan is comforted by the fact that polling indicates a majority of Coloradans — including gun owners — support the red-flag law, in spite of all the public displays of outrage about it last year. Polling also shows that the changes Democrats are proposing this year are fairly popular.