You are incorrect. The State Law trumps local law. While the theater can post “No Guns Allowed” legally, the town cannot make gun laws that supercede the state.
Colorado has what they call “home-rule law” rules. That means that in some places, local law (home law) trumps State Laws. I don’t know if Aurora is a Home law area or not.
What home laws do, do is create confusion in dispensing justice evenly and trying to figure out what you can and can’t do in any given area is insane. Some places won’t reveal the laws or rules!
Ever been to a town that shuns firearms? I have, doesnt matter one whit what any state law says. You get caught with a firearm and they make it real hard on you. Now you can say all you want, but take it to court if you have enough money to fight it...most people dont. Consider this..the local court leans towards the local authority. So you have to file all the way up the chain to fight it. Maybe some have enough money to do this, but folks like me dont. So we move.
unless the state law allows such local BS.
There are also cases where local municipalities pass such BS laws which they KNOW are illegal but do it just to give police state power to police and “let the judge sort them out”. A “just in case” we need tyranical power law.
FL did it best. If a municipality passes such a law, the elected officials are CRIMINALLY LIABLE and must affirmativly take such laws off the books or go to jail.