This timeline tracks only the dated events that materially help the repo understand Ava Flanell's role in the Colorado Springs story. It combines family-context, firearms-business, media, advocacy, vacancy-appointment, and early legislative milestones while preserving uncertainty around exact dates and source posture.
2013.2014.2017; the SAF source note says the Ava Flanell Show launched in 2017 as a politically focused firearms podcast.Meet the heavily armed millennials of Instagram, placing Flanell in a firearms-influencer / tactical-lifestyle media context.2019-03-07 Wayback capture.2024.14, creating the vacancy that led to Flanell's appointment process.2025-10-11 as her appointment date.AVA FOR COLORADO, committee 20255051106, records early campaign-finance activity with 135 contribution rows totaling $13,632.78, 59 expenditure rows totaling $2,339.75, and no loan rows as of the captured bulk data.raw/datasets/tracer/ava-for-colorado-2025-2026/ava-for-colorado-tracer-transaction-slice-2025-2026.md2025.HB26-1060, Expand Criminal Jurisdiction for Out-of-State Conduct, was introduced with Flanell as a prime sponsor.HB26-1105, Discuss Adoption Information with Pregnant Persons, was introduced with Flanell as a prime sponsor.HB26-1129, Gas Utility Service, was introduced with Flanell as a prime sponsor.HB26-1212, Constitutional Carry of Handgun, was introduced with Flanell as a prime sponsor.HB26-1334, Modify Standards of Wildfire Resiliency Code Board, was introduced with Flanell as a prime sponsor.HB26-1212 and HB26-1334 were postponed indefinitely in House committees.2026-04-19.2013: Flanell's public firearms-instruction business begins in the source record.2019: independent national reporting places her in a firearms-influencer / tactical-lifestyle media context.2025: SB25-003 testimony and CSSA-linked advocacy create the clearest pre-office bridge into formal firearms-policy politics.2025-10: HD14 appointment moves the story from advocacy / media / business profile into state legislative office.2025-2026: early AVA FOR COLORADO TRACER rows give a startup campaign-finance baseline, while full filing-image reconciliation remains unresolved.2026: official bill pages show her early legislative work extending beyond firearms into criminal jurisdiction, abortion / adoption discussion requirements, energy, and wildfire-resiliency code governance.2012 family / accident context is included only because it helps explain the source-backed business and public-profile transition.