Colorado lawmakers met with two gun reform groups in Denver on Monday to talk about the bills they are considering to address gun violence in the upcoming legislative session.

鈥淭here鈥檚 so much on the table, probably over 20 things we could do in Colorado to address gun violence, and it鈥檚 going to be sorting out what is going to be the most effective and realizable,鈥� said Eileen McCarron, the president of Colorado Ceasefire. 鈥淭he Club Q shooting underscores that we still have serious problems dealing with people who are inappropriate with guns, who have access to very lethal firearms and are using them to annihilate other people鈥檚 lives.鈥�

McCarron said the question of how to regulate assault weapons is the 鈥渆lephant in the room.鈥�

鈥淚t is the commonality of so many shootings,鈥� she said.

She said the gun safety groups and lawmakers discussed the challenges associated with regulating assault weapons.

鈥淗ow do you define them? How do you keep them from crossing state lines? What do you do about, gosh, how many millions of them are out there?鈥� MCarron said.

Monday鈥檚 meeting with Colorado Ceasefire and another group, Giffords, was scheduled before the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs.

MCCarron said it was not advertised publicly and was meant to be a conversation between gun safety advocates and lawmakers.

鈥淚f we opened it up to the public, we wouldn鈥檛 have been able to afford the meeting space,鈥� McCarron said.

McCarron said at least a dozen Democratic lawmakers attended the meeting in person and on Zoom.

No recording of the meeting is available.

The policy discussion came less than two weeks after Democrats announced the formation of a new caucus to focus on gun violence prevention.

State Rep. Meg Froelich, D-Englewood, is one of the caucus鈥� leaders.

鈥淪ince the Club Q tragedy, there's been the equivalent of the Club Q tragedy occurring in terms of the number of deaths in Colorado from gun violence,鈥� Froelich said Friday. 鈥淪o it is something that we want to address daily at the legislature and to have it be a priority at the legislature.鈥�

Froelich said organizing a new caucus will help lawmakers be more strategic in how they address gun violence, and less reactive with their policy decisions.

She added lawmakers are also discussing potential improvements to the so called red flag law, which allows for the temporary removal of firearms from a person who is deemed a threat to themselves or others.