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Colorado Governor Turns Back Clock, Signing Bill Nullifying Preemption
libertyparkpress.com ^ | June 21, 2021 | Dave Workman

Posted on 06/21/2021 12:47:40 PM PDT by PROCON

Colorado gun rights took a leap backward over the weekend as Democrat Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation essentially gutting the Centennial State’s firearms preemption law, thus allowing local municipalities to establish their own gun control laws.

It returns Colorado to a checkerboard situation where neighboring jurisdictions might have different, perhaps conflicting gun laws that confuse, and according to some critics, possibly even ensnare gun owners into situations where they might be violating a local law by crossing an invisible jurisdictional line.

At the same time, Gov. Polis signed another measure establishing an “Office of Gun Violence Prevention,” whose job will be to coordinate and promote efforts to reduce “gun violence.” The bill provides $3 million in funding for this new office.

According to the Denver Post, Senate Bill 21-256 “reverses a ban that keeps local governments (towns, cities and counties) from creating their own gun regulations.

“But local jurisdictions can only make ordinances that are stricter, not more lenient, than state law,” the newspaper explained. “Any regulations currently in place that are less restrictive are effectively overturned. A person can only face a criminal penalty for violating local laws if they knew about them or reasonably should have known. The new law also puts concealed-carry requirements back in the hands of the state so they’re consistent, but it does allow local governments to decide where those guns can be carried.”

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: banglist; calirado; colorado; dopepolitics; jaredpolis; marijuanastate; polis; preemptionlaw; rkba
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To: taxcontrol

I’m in. I would love constitutional carry as well but doubt we would ever get that. I’m surprised we are still a shall issue state


21 posted on 06/21/2021 1:33:00 PM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I have family in both florida and texas. Now I just have to convince DH who likes to ride his bike up mountains, ski and snowshoe etc….


22 posted on 06/21/2021 1:37:16 PM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Colorado has been Californiated.

Oregon and Washington too.

Californication is a more deadly disease than any Covid strain.

23 posted on 06/21/2021 1:49:12 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: PROCON

Fifty years ago the most popular bumper sticker in Colorado and Northern New Mexico was...

“DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!”

Well, it has been, and they are now moving in on New Mexico.

In Northern NM, the next most popular bumper sticker at that time was..

“PRAY FOR ME! I DRIVE HWY 44!”


24 posted on 06/21/2021 2:08:14 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: TigersEye; MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; backspace; bboop; Benito Cereno; bravo whiskey; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


25 posted on 06/21/2021 2:43:08 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TigersEye; T.B. Yoits
“But local jurisdictions can only make ordinances that are stricter, not more lenient, than state law,”

So, no.

26 posted on 06/21/2021 2:50:44 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: george76

We’re in trouble with vote fraud.


27 posted on 06/21/2021 2:51:44 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

Rats!

Laws created by rats.


28 posted on 06/21/2021 2:55:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: MileHi

Yes. No wonder Mohamed Enab’s wife : Jena was caught deleting Dominion Voting Machine proposals and refuses to allow an election audit..


29 posted on 06/21/2021 3:04:18 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: PROCON

Add Oregon to that list.


30 posted on 06/21/2021 3:18:03 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! )
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To: joma89

Well that’s very likely the last straw. I have zero intention of obeying any of their unconstitutional laws for as long as I’m here. However, I am as of now in “Get me the {expletive} out of here!” mode. Wife wants one place, I want another. I’m willing to concede and go with wife’s choice so we can focus on getting the house cleaned out and on the market.


31 posted on 06/21/2021 3:19:58 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Howie66

“First y’all need to stop voting these Commie Pukes into office.”

We have been overrun by illegals, Californians, New Yorkers, New Jersyites and every anti-american mutt in the universe MORON!


32 posted on 06/21/2021 3:27:06 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I have spent a great deal of time in Colorado. I travel there many times each year to climb and camp in those beautiful mountains.
Saying that. There is no way I would leave Oklahoma to be a resident of Colorado.


33 posted on 06/21/2021 3:37:23 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: T.B. Yoits

I thought the new law allows only MORE restrictive regulations, not LESS restrictive. What am I missing?


34 posted on 06/21/2021 3:39:30 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Laslo Fripp
I thought the new law allows only MORE restrictive regulations, not LESS restrictive. What am I missing?

Opening up the can of worms for changes in legislation open up all the cans of worms. It's no different than "Sanctuary Cities".

35 posted on 06/21/2021 3:42:57 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: george76

Where is CO repub party?


36 posted on 06/21/2021 3:43:38 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: PROCON

My Brother and his Family moved to Colorado Springs from CA decades ago.

When the Rats took over, he told me it wasn’t a problem because Coloradan’s are Conservative and overwhelmingly support our Constitutional Right to own Firearms.

I like to remind him of his lack of vision whenever we talk.


37 posted on 06/21/2021 3:47:02 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Where in Colorado do you live? I know it’s not Boulder. /s


38 posted on 06/21/2021 3:48:28 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Leaning Right

That scenario occurred in Denver when hunters or firearm owners were traveling through and stopped. It will be going back to that again, but this time the commies will be worse with the arrests.


39 posted on 06/21/2021 3:50:48 PM PDT by grcuster
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To: grcuster

> That scenario occurred in Denver when hunters or firearm owners were traveling through and stopped. <

I used to be someone who tried to cooperate with the police whenever I could. But not anymore. So my advice to Coloradans at a traffic stop:

Police officer: “Is there a firearm in your car?”
I’d say: “No disrespect meant officer, but I do not answer questions.”

Police officer: “Do you mind if I do a quick search of your car?”
I’d say: “No disrespect meant officer, but I do not consent to a search.”

The cop might then ask you to step out if your car, which I believe you must then do. But if he then searches you or your car you have grounds to claim it was an illegal search.


40 posted on 06/21/2021 4:25:29 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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