Posted on 03/15/2013 5:02:14 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae
Colorado lawmakers passed a bill on Friday to mandate universal background checks for all gun buyers in a state that has experienced two of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, a spokesman for majority Colorado House Democrats said....The legislation now awaits the signature of Governor John Hickenlooper for final approval.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
It's really just the Greater Denver Metro area that needs a fumigation.
Baby steps..
Simultaneously all the people who have already have all the guns and ammo they need do not care.
Wouldn’t have stopped James Eagan Holmes, but that’s not its purpose, anyway.
Universal Background Checks are not functional WITHOUT TOTAL GUN REGISTRATION!
Otherwise, how would the nanny state know when you sold or transferred a firearm?
There will be may legal challenges and massive non-compliance.
> Simultaneously the illegal aliens swarming the state will continue to be immune from the law.
The illegals are receiving so many benefits that citizens may soon need a fast-track process of becoming illegal.
see post #7.
You will care when they cite the need for registration of ALL OF YOUR FIREARMS!
I don’t register anything to exercise my God given rights, thanks.
Let me guess, many Denver residents moved in from CA after they screwede up that state.
Sadly, that is probably true in a number of states that would otherwise be categorized as gun-friendly. The bulk of the people out in the hinterland have good sense, but the crazed lefties gravitate to, and take over, the larger metro areas.
Governor Chickenpooper is expected to sign these bits of treason. He would not even listen any Sheriff of Colorado. He must never have heard of the Second Amendment. We have gone form judicial activism to a state dictatorship.
I already CARE. Understand this. I don’t have any guns. Any records showing that I had or may have had any guns is inaccurate. Any laws that abridge the Constitution are null and void.
All of which will help to insure that there is more deadly mass shooting of the increasingly unarmed subjects of Colorado.
Criminals and mass shooters of Colorado should thank Colorado democrats for making their jobs all that much safer.
For every one of these bills that get passed into law, someone could say, as Phil did in your book Enemies Foreign and Domestic, "...whoever wrote that damn law is either the biggest fool who ever lived, or he just flat-out wants to start a civil war in this country.”
“You will care when they cite the need for registration of ALL OF YOUR FIREARMS!”
Firearms? What Firearms?
It is time to shut down and devastate the Colorado tourism and travel industry. Give no quarter. No skiing, no hunting, climbing, hiking....nothing. Hurt them with extreme boycott. Spend your money in Wyoming, Utah or Texas!!
Sadly, that is probably true in a number of states that would otherwise be categorized as gun-friendly. The bulk of the people out in the hinterland have good sense, but the crazed lefties gravitate to, and take over, the larger metro areas.
That's definitely true in Colorado's case. Denver wants to be the San Francisco of the Rocky Mountains.
I really believe it will not decrease gun violence.
.....but.
Having said that some of the amendments I saw being proposed a week ago, reduced my level of concern significantly about such a law. (I said reduce not eliminate.) I also was discussed when I found out that prominent gun rights groups like the Second Amendment Org were willing to go along with both state and federal universal background checks if certain provisions regarding destruction of records were included.
The reason, I bring this up is the set of words in the article, “...”This bill as amended strikes an important balance between ensuring that the bill reduces the number of guns in the hands of criminals while allowing all law-abiding citizens to purchase the guns of their choice,” state Senator Morgan Carroll said following Senate approval...”
Anyone have the full text.
Having opened myself up and been candid, I would now like to urge everyone to write to their federal Senators and House members and urge them oppose any gun control laws, such as Feinstein’s so-called assault weapons ban, high capacity magazine ban, and the Chuck Schummer universal background check legislation.
Hmm, that’s too bad. Now that every law abiding colorado resident has painted a big, fat bulls eye on their foreheads, I guess the criminal elements are going to have a field day with the freshly disarmed and neutered citizens. Expect plenty of colorado citizens to be swatted and charged with offenses solely to disqualify them from firearm posession in the near future.
Guess Coloradans should take off those cowboy hats. Berets will be more fitting.
He said Boulder has shops with anti-Bush signs.
I won’t vacation in Colorado, and ill probably look down upon those that do, as a matter of printable.
But if you want to make an understandable effect upon the body politics in Colorado were going to have to go about this by way of spreading toxic roomers, regarding the inhospitality and insecurity of that State.
Make would be tourist not want to go there because of what they have done.
Now that is an idea, slashing democrat tires. Its too bad we are so lawful as a group.
But I must admit to a desire to give a finger to every driver on the road with one of them I’m a Obama thief stickers.
If I am in heavy traffic and cannot be followed, I like to yell out the window to the drivers with Obama stickers...I like to say, “Hey, someone put an Obama sticker on your car”.
Climate change can be due to many things, esp. changes in the amount of heat coming from the sun.
The tipoff that this is an anti-CO2/grasshouse gas study is the comment by the Somalian that “CO2/grasshouse gases” caused the drought.
More shitty science from overpaid quacks.
Has anyone seen the obama jackets? I ‘bout spit when saw it! It was a rather large black man with a jacket that had ‘obama back 2 back’ stitched on the back.
Maybe he had it made or something. Just ridiculous..he IS the kardasian president.
So in what way does the bill reduce the number of guns in the hands of criminals?
Berets? CO seems pretty much ready for velvet sombreros and assless leather pants.
The good news is, my Brother who lives in Colorado just received 5 of the 10 Magazines he ordered from Magpul.
They only let you order 5 of each type, so he ordered 5 with the window and 5 without. They only charged him $5 shipping just like they said they would and FedEx delivered them.
The bad news is, Colorado has Stage Four Libtardism and will soon go the way of the Wooly Mammoth.
Such a shame that another domino has fallen to the Commies, just as JFK had feared. Unfortunately, he thought it would happen in Asia.
Methinks I might be moving up to Wyoming soon.
Yes, the “Boulder Airlift” has begun parachuting in supplies.
Given that there is no mechanism to determine when a magazine was purchased, the capacity limit is unenforceable.
Given that “Mandatory Background Checks” are unenforceable, without benefit of prior registration, you can expect extensive legal challenges, and failing that, massive non-compliance.
When a government loses its legitimacy, then you do not obey it. The CO sheriffs should say they will not enforce unconstitutional laws. When Gov. Hickenlooper objects the they ask him why he’s giving free money to illegal aliens flooding his state instead of arresting them?
And the Columbine killers were not old enough yo purchase the guns they had either.
CO 2nd A. ping
However, some of the amendments included exemptions for
transfer to a member of immediate family,
transfer to someone whose life might be in danger and having the firearm would provide protection,
transfer by legal action or court (divorce settlement, inheritance, etc.)
transfer at a gun range or organized conservation organization.
transfer while hunting, trapping or fishing
These were some of the exemptions that I saw being considered a week ago. I was wondering how many made the final bill as the devil is always in the details.
How do they expect all the recreational pot-heads to remember to follow the law on this? I can picture someone bartering away a gun/ammo/magazine for a few ounces of weed and not complying with the background check for private “sales”...
Mark Levin and Sarah Palin have talked about their belief that the DHS is preparing for an economic collapse that will cause chaos, in which they will have to restore order. They may be doing just that, but they are also intentionally causing mistrust at a level that will cause them to be treated as hostile targets by many as soon as they appear on the streets. There isn't any reason to believe they aren't hostile either.
We may be forced into conflict by these tyrants. Every time I get optimistic I remember the extremist we are dealing with. They have so many ways to cause conflict without giving a direct order to confiscate guns. These radical leftist seem to want quick radical change one way or the other.
www.OathKeepers.org
Please see the following: http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2013a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/590C29B4C02AFC2F87257A8E0073C303?open&file=1229_rer.pdf
Look closely at the exemptions from pages 5 to 7. Any bill without those exemptions is not well thought out. Any bill with those exemptions is hardly “UNIVERSAL.”
As a gun collector and long time member of a state gun collectors association, I feel that such background checks would harm gun shows and the ability to easily make purchase from other collectors to improve my collection.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.