Posted on 05/03/2018 10:10:29 AM PDT by Simon Green
By a unanimous vote Tuesday evening, Boulder, Colorado’s City Council advanced a ban on the sale and possession of America’s favorite rifle, the AR-15. They also voted to ban bump fire stocks, standard capacity magazines and similar sporting rifles as well. With a third vote, the ban will take effect for residents as well as visitors to Boulder.
Of course, the rule-making exempts law enforcement and military users. As for the little people, The Berkeley of the Rockies’ Mayor Suzanne Jones said, “I think, by and large, we’re focused on a type of weapon to keep it out of civilian society.” Because, nobody needs one of these guns, right?
Meanwhile, plenty of Boulder residents oppose the bill. Gun owners have packed the council chambers at meetings. Many said they will not comply.
The Boulder Camera has the story:
The Boulder City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to advance a ban on the sale and possession of assault weapons, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines in the city.
In recent weeks, the terms and scope of the council’s proposed ban have been hotly debated, including at a multi-hour public hearing before the council April 5, during a street protest on Broadway and through hundreds of emails to the council from citizens.
What the council voted for on Tuesday is not final. In order to be adopted as law, it will need to be voted on again at a third reading that will likely take place in the next few weeks.
It will become effective as soon as it’s adopted.
Interestingly, during the debate, Boulder council members agreed the bill stood as a “mostly symbolic gesture.” But despite it’s ineffectiveness, it made them feel better. And feelings and emotions make for good legislation, right?
Never one for keeping her mouth shut and merely thought a fool, Mayor Jones offered her thoughts on symbolic gestures. “Just because we can’t solve an entire problem doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take steps to progress,” she said.
She probably didn’t mean that we should make progress toward a future that’s more free, rather than one that recalls past tyrannies.
A city council has that authority? I doubt it. The people are already screaming.
Un Con!
Void before it was written.
Colorado statute prohibits communities from making laws more strict than State law.
Suddenly turning a fair proportion of your citizens into felons is symbolic, all right. The prison sentences won't be.
I was wondering. Bastards make up their own rules. This is who some people want representing us?
I’m shopping for a small 9 mm or comparable gun with 10 or less in mag since we’re going to see our son in Denver this month. Suggestions?
Sig P239
Doesn’t matter, they’re doing it. They did the same thing here in Hillsborough county Florida. Incrementalism is taking hold, and they’re daring someone to sue them. It’s up to the governors of these states to step up. Problem here in Florida is that Gov. Scott is running for Senate. This could make him look bad if they overturn.
“A city council has that authority?”
actually, they don’t.
many years ago, the Colorado legislature passed a law asserting that ALL regulation of firearms was a state-wide matter only and that all local regulation was null and void ... the state supreme court upheld most of it, though it should have upheld all of it ...
I’ve been to Boulder ONCE. That was to see Charlton Heston speak.
Florida has a state preemption law. Municipal officials who pass such laws are subject to prosecution.
Local Authority to Regulate Firearms in Colorado
A local government may not enact an ordinance, regulation, or other law that prohibits the sale, purchase, or possession of a firearm that a person may lawfully sell, purchase, or possess under state or federal law. Any such ordinance, regulation, or other law enacted by a local government prior to March 18, 2003, is void and unenforceable.
Me, too...but it was The Rolling Stones.
An absolute RIGHT. Here are what the jurists thought of the 2nd Amendment in the 1800s.
This is from the suppressed 1982 Congressional Report on THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. Betcha can’t find the complete version on line or in print. I have a a copy from 1982 from the US Government printing house.
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/68101
19. *
Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.)
243
, at
251
(1846)
.
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole
people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear
arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be
infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the
important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so
vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
15 years ago...I was on a business trip to Boulder. When I saw men wearing maxi-dresses in public, I knew my “places to expand our business to” report to the board wasn’t going to read positive.
I concur.
Glock 26
Now that individual towns can ignore the parts of the Constitution that they don’t agree with, all of the red Counties in America need to push for for bans on Muslims, left-wing speech and protest, and Miranda rights for drug users.
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