Colorado Weapons Ban

[Robert]

I have attached the text of the upcoming Colorado Assault Weapons Ban. This is a ban on almost all firearms and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. I for one will not comply and this reminds me to renew my RMGO membership. We are in for a long fight.

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

I hadn't heard of this.

Good luck to you guys. Seriously. I'm rooting for you.

But take heart, in CA we get bad law overturned regularly, it just takes too dang long

And there's massive non compliance all over the place.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Unfortunate.
Maybe you need to move East a bit. Colby isn't all that humid...

 

[AlexanderA]

I for one will not comply

It's hard to see how you could violate this proposed law since it includes grandfathering of existing weapons. The way I read it, it would apply only prospectively.

The country (including Colorado) is awash with these types of weapons. Anybody who hasn't already stocked up has been asleep at the switch. Therefore, the actual effect of such legislation (in preventing mass shootings) will be minimal. The sponsors surely know this, and this legislation is an empty gesture.

The next step would be confiscation of existing weapons, but that's where they would really run into non-compliance. Notice, however, that this legislation doesn't include a registration provision, which would be necessary for the next step. It seems to me that the legislators are unwilling to go there.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

This is the result of one party rule for too many years. Elections have consequences and when ignorant people who believe they have the power of God get control of all 4 levers of government (including the Supreme Court of Colorado) unconstitutional tyranny happens.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

There is massive non-compliance with the Canadian federal government's assault weapon ban in the Provinces of Canada.
Provincial governments have told the federal goverment they are not going after gun ownrts.
There is resistence to registration including rallies where people burn registration forms in the village square.
We need to learn from Canada how to be (North) Americans

 

[Robert]

It's hard to see how you could violate this proposed law since it includes grandfathering of existing weapons. The way I read it, it would apply only prospectively.

The country (including Colorado) is awash with these types of weapons. Anybody who hasn't already stocked up has been asleep at the switch. Therefore, the actual effect of such legislation (in preventing mass shootings) will be minimal. The sponsors surely know this, and this legislation is an empty gesture.

The next step would be confiscation of existing weapons, but that's where they would really run into non-compliance. Notice, however, that this legislation doesn't include a registration provision, which would be necessary for the next step. It seems to me that the legislators are unwilling to go there.

The next step is, and I'll dig up the bill, is a requirement for all firearms owners to carry liability insurance. Which will require registration.

 

[Basura Blanca]

According to RMGO, there's a rally at the capitol on the 19th, so there is something "we can do to stop it".
The bill seems to borrow heavily from our (CA) three decades of amended AWBs. But it looks like the authors stopped short of toothy penalties since it appears violating it would be a misdemeanor .

 

[Basura Blanca]

This is the result of one party rule for too many years. Elections have consequences and when ignorant people who believe they have the power of God get control of all 4 levers of government (including the Supreme Court of Colorado) unconstitutional tyranny happens.

More like it's politically expedient to support trash legislation like this. That's the real reason these bills can advance in the current environment. Someone elsewhere posted a canned reply from their state rep in regard to their opposition to this and it's clear that the motivation isn't so much delusions of godliness driving this; it's the belief that it's a popular position to remain elected. Change that and this stuff goes away.

 

[borrowedtime69]

This is mostly why I moved to a red state, I was stressing out living in a state who's legislation would make me a criminal due to noncompliance. I'm too old and worn out to stay and fight the tyranny (i would use LEGAL means only.)

 

[tarosean]

Anybody who hasn't already stocked up has been asleep at the switch.

Yet people come of age every single day that we’re not able to “stock up”

 

[Shawn Dodson]

The next step is, and I'll dig up the bill, is a requirement for all firearms owners to carry liability insurance. Which will require registration.

That's akin to a poll tax.

Resist and refuse to comply.

 

[AlexanderA]

The next step is, and I'll dig up the bill, is a requirement for all firearms owners to carry liability insurance. Which will require registration.

Keeping in mind that no insurer will cover intentional torts (such as mass shootings), it's unclear that the market will make such gun liability policies available. Certainly not at affordable rates. So the antis can legislate, but the market will have the final say on this.

Since liability policies cover the owners, and not the guns, serial numbers of guns would be irrelevant. I don't see the connection with registration.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

I'm not up to date on this, but didn't Colorado get their butts handed to them by a federal judge a couple years or so ago over a ban?

And didn't several localities say they weren't going to enforce squat?

 

[tarosean]

Did the media write this? Holy crap is that sensationalism at its best.

 

[AlexanderA]

Yet people come of age every single day that were not able to “stock up”

There's such an overabundance of AW's right now, that plenty will filter down to the younger generations, either legally or illegally.

The reality is that the antis cannot significantly cut down on the numbers of AW's within any meaningful time frame. There will always be enough out there that wrongdoers would have no trouble finding them.

All that such legislation does is inconvenience the law-abiding.

 

[NorthBorder]

There have been some You tube videos of the sheriff in El Paso County speaking about the absurdity of this ban, and I think I gleaned from it that his office will not enforce this new law. He also gave a demonstration that the difference between someone shooting 15 round mags, 10 rounds mags, and 5 round mags is inconsequential as far as time to reload. His video assailing this ban was very strong and he didn't mince words. I was a cop in Colorado for 20 years before I decided that Montana was to be my last best place and it is by any measure.

 

[Barmcd]

That's a pretty broad gun ban. I'd think that has little chance of passing muster with any federal court since the supreme court has readily affirmed the absolute right of citizens to bear arms via several recent cases. .

 

[LiveLife]

Colorado Assault Weapons Ban. This is a ban on almost all firearms and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. I for one will not comply

I have a feeling a lawsuit or more will be filed with request for preliminary injunction and/or temporary restraining order.

 

[General Geoff]

I have attached the text of the upcoming Colorado Assault Weapons Ban. This is a ban on almost all firearms and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. I for one will not comply and this reminds me to renew my RMGO membership. We are in for a long fight.

Upon looking at the list, it rather conspicuously leaves out the Ruger Mini-14 Ranch series in traditional styled stock, as well as the Springfield M1A and other semiauto M14 pattern rifles IF you can get one without a threaded barrel and in traditional style stock.

The weird part about this specific legislation that stands out to me, is that they include a muzzle brake as a prohibited evil feature, but not a flash hider. BUT that's irrelevant because they consider a threaded barrel itself as an evil feature, so unless you have a flash hider that is pinned or set-screwed in place instead of threaded on, I guess you ain't getting one of those either.


Just confirmation that this legislation is not only a huge overreach and infringement on our rights, but it is also not concerned whatsoever in the actual capabilities of the weapons it proposes to ban, beyond their ability to look scary to the average soccer mom.

 

[JTHunter]

I for one will not comply - - -

IL-ANNOY took a lesson from the AWB in CA and passed a similar one in the "dark of night in Jan., 2023. They "required" registration by 1/1/24, although now, they have left the registration "open". You had to e-sign a statement that you were registering your guns and ammo "voluntarily". The problem is that you were threatened with possible legal action if you failed to register.
I believe that this is called extortion.
The last I heard, less than 5% of the numbers the state had expected to register had done so.

 

[230RN]

"Just a misdemeanor?"

Five guns equals five misdemeanors. Add up the possible sentences for five misdemeanors.

I am tired of seeing some of us try to soften the effects of some of these things, all of which are dangerous stepwise infringements.

There's a truth in a remark I heard a couple of years ago that any law is good for lawyers.

Not that I'm disparaging the lawyers herein, but that truth seems to ring like a bell to me.

Terry, 230RN

 

[Ignition Override]

Carl N. Brown:

Two Canadians answered a question I sent them. The only question: my curiosity about the Status of their new "laws" and ---supposed confiscations.---

Their responses were sent to me about 4-7 months ago, and what they said really surprised me.

The first guy said that due to "..the government’s Viscious incompetence..." very little had happened. They govt. doesn't seem to have good reliable records of who owns Which rifle.

But---the second guy said that not only is there almost no RCMP ("Mounted" Police) staff available to go knock on doors of some registered owners of semi-autos....the RCMP is afraid to do so, "...out of fear for the officers' safety!"
Reading that was bit of a shock.
They said nothing about whether gun owners have the nerve to take semi-auto rifles to a gun range. I suspect that in rural areas using --Slow-fire-- (like a bolt-action) there is plenty of practice with semi-auto rifles, if people stored some ammo or can buy some.

 

[The Night Rider]

The country (including Colorado) is awash with these types of weapons. Anybody who hasn't already stocked up has been asleep at the switch. Therefore, the actual effect of such legislation (in preventing mass shootings) will be minimal. The sponsors surely know this, and this legislation is an empty gesture.

No, it's not an empty gesture. It's a step towards citizen disarmament.

When I die I can't even will my firearms to my kids.

The next step would be confiscation of existing weapons, but that's where they would really run into non-compliance. Notice, however, that this legislation doesn't include a registration provision, which would be necessary for the next step. It seems to me that the legislators are unwilling to go there.

There's already a law in Colorado prohibiting Firearms registration. They'll have to repeal that law first and then they'll just pass another law requiring registration.

 

[Targa]

This is a ban on almost all firearms and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it.

Yep!!! And with forum rules prohibiting politics I will leave it there since this is 100 percent because of a political party. Wife and I are trying to move, in the immortal words of Mr. Jim Nabors “ Back home again in Indiana”.