Posted on 05/29/2013 9:23:52 AM PDT by Red Steel
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 28, 2013 — Tuesday night at the Freedom Financial Event Center in Colorado Springs over 800 people rallied to support Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith, Weld County Sheriff John Cooke, El Paso Country Sheriff Terry Maketa and the Independence Institute in their lawsuit against the unconstitutional gun laws passed by the Colorado legislature in March.
Organizers raised about $8,000 at the door but collected thousands more inside, first with two separate auctions of a resolution passed by El Paso County commissioners Tuesday morning. The resolution calls House Bills 1224 and 1229 "vague" and "unenforceable."
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Sheriff Maketa said that in over thirteen years in his involvement with the legislative process this was the first time that he, as an elected sheriff, was not allowed to speak at the hearings. El Paso County is the largest county in Colorado and Sheriff Maketa was reelected with 81 percent of the vote in 2012.
He said that the east coast gun grabbers picked the fight in Colorado and that passing these bills was “our Alamo.” They counted on us doing nothing about it, he said, but they were wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at communities.washingtontimes.com ...
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Terrible title, makes it sound like sheriffs are for the ban.
That is the way I read the title too.
More than 800 attend fundraiser to fight new gun restrictions.
http://gazette.com/more-than-800-attend-fundraiser-to-fight-new-gun-restrictions/article/1501328
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You fight’em until they all fall down and all the king’s corrupt men can’t get them back up.
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