grandfathering

The NHL finally made visors mandatory in 2013-14, again grandfathering them in, after career threatening — and sometimes ending — eye injuries to players such as Pierre Mondou, Jean Hamel, Bryan Berard, Manny Malhotra and Chris Pronger.

It took until 1979 for the NHL to mandate helmets — “grandfathering” it so players who hadn’t yet worn them didn’t need to switch.

In popular culture, “grandfathers typically are checked out,” said Greg Payne, 53, who struggled to find books about grandfathering after his first grandchild was born four years ago.

But some men are forging a new grandfathering path, even without cultural norms to guide them.

If passed, the ambitious legislation would make Colorado the 10th state in the nation to ban the sale and transfer of certain semiautomatic guns while grandfathering in the state’s existing ones.