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DENVER - The shooting rampage at a suburban high school prompted state lawmakers today to kill major gun bills, including one that would have helped gun owners obtain concealed weapons permits.

Local government leaders had criticized the concealed gun bill, already passed by the state Senate. A House panel had planned to take up the measure today, but after Tuesday's shootings legislative leaders decided to postpone action.

Today, the sponsor of the concealed weapons bill went a step farther. ''I'm pulling it,'' said Republican House Majority Leader Doug Dean.

That means his measure will die when the Legislature adjourns on May 5.

The bill would have required sheriffs to grant concealed weapons permits if applicants passed a number of conditions.

Dean said Tuesday that the tragedy in suburban Littleton might have been offset if a faculty member, or administrator, had been armed.

But state Rep. Russell George said he had received calls expressing the opposite.

''I'm getting e-mails from people saying: 'See what happens when you have guns? And you legislators are talking about allowing more guns in society, and here's the harm that comes,''' he said.

Under the Senate version of the bill, people wouldn't have been allowed to carry their handguns on school grounds or into schools, government buildings or bars.

State Rep. Gary McPherson, sponsor of a separate bill to let a state law override local ordinances on gun control, also withdrew his bill today.